Reitz Memorial High School - Memorial Review Yearbook (Evansville, IN)

Text from Pages 1 - 68 of the 1954 volume:

Stale, 59146 Sqmmf Gum 746 Mmm 2 ohlwlz Bell .fzlieaace Ww'ae Jlaf! 91 Qaeen Pain! ala! 7am am! 2143 Jfcuwlicm Sandal Sophomore volleyball champions are, left to right, front row: Deanna Wesselman, Dixie Rapp, Clara Cooper and Margaret Coffee. Second row: Deanna Mclntosh, Barbara Montgomery, Janet Ransdell and Connie Brammer. As champions in their gym classes, Doris Brown and Phyllis Beer spank the ping pong ball. ln the background Carolyn Bickmeier, shuffle board, Dor- ris Shelton and Carolyn Barchet, badminton, and Louise Scherer, shuffleboard, look on, Winners of the GAA volley ball tournament were, first row: Geraldine Trotter, Sherian Goodman, Linda Dowdle, Sharon King and Pat King. Second row: Natomi Minton, Diane Ruter, Sandra Hart, Gail Fisher and Billie Jo Myers. Page 63 l Page 62 Girls Athletic Association officers were Patsy Bran- ham, Sharon King, Barbara Hobgood and Gearlene Plumb. Winners in the Girls Athletic Association basket- ball tournament were, from left to right, Delores Blackburn, Margaret Buttrarn, Barbara Delano, Sandy Rullestad, Louise Higgins, Ethel Peace, Phyllis Winiger and Margaret Head. Gathered around the volley ball net, winners of the round robin tournament were, from left 'to right, Marilyn Southwood, Susan Walton, Diana Ritter and Susan Vogel on the other side of the net. Also, Mary Saterfield, Darlene Deweese, Susan Giannini, Janet Baldwin, Marilyn Harrington and Glenda ROSS, The l954 Reitz baseball team members are, from left to right, first row: Gary Schoening, Lanny West, Don Hornback, Bill Goins, Joe Slaton, Harry Gonter man, Don Markee and Rex Wathen. Second row: Coach William Trott, Ronald Talley, Lowell Farrar, Jerry Sexton, Ray Clark, Jim Russell, Bob Fisher, Lance Lang and Bill Thurneck. Members of Reitz's 1954 Varsity Golf team are, from left to right, Coach James Bennett, Don Kuhs, John Steinkamp, Alan Nunn and John Reininga. Members of the City championship and SIAC runner-up track team are from left to right, first row: Bobbie Nicholson, Donnie Pfohl, Jim Pirtle, Herb Wilhite, Albert Apple, Bob York, Russel Kuhn, Albert Roehr and Bill Loos. Second row: Gary Reke, Larry Stofleth, Bill Zinn, Dave Gard, Larry Lyons, Frank Harrington, Tommy Schmidt, Bob Fawcett and Chuck Horr. Third row: Coach Allan Horn, Larry Higgins, Fred Walton, Jerry Peckenpaugh, Don Siscel, Emerson Tornatta, Norbert Hancock, Gary Moore, Mike Bentzen, Dave Arvin, Taylor Altheide and Jere Richardson. Page 6l Page 60 Reitz wrestlers broke better than even this year with five victories and four losses. The team members are, front row: Charles Ligon, Allen Happe, Larry Lyons and Pat McDonald. Second row: Jim Bromm, Jerry Maynard, Jim Pirtle, Bill Anderson, Don Siscel and Noel McDonald. Third row: Phil Aramowicz, Arvel Ellebrook, Tank Martin, Bob Koehler, Marvin Peter, Bob York, Bob Fawcett and Coach Allan Horn, Bill Taylor, Audrey Bell and Glenn Fulton were not present for the picture. Varsity runners on the 1953 Reitz Cross Country team are, from left to right, front row: Larry Higgins, Bob Fawcett, Tom Greenberg, Jim Russell and Jerry Huff. Back row: Gary Moore, Harold Halbrook and Bill King. Reitz's i954 tennis team members are, from left to right, Bob Schmitt, Bill lgleheart, Loren Moore, Tom Greenberg and Coach James Barnett. Reitz's i954 Varsity basketball team and SIAC champs are, from left to right, first row: .lim Boyd, student man- ager, Larry Higgins, Bob Fisher, Tom Greenberg and Ted Weiss, student manager. Second row: Jim Byers, Harold Hal- brook, Jim Russell, Bob Martin and Wally Stramming, student manager. Third row: Head Coach Clarence Riggs, Gary Sprinkle, Charles Graff, Bob Carnal, Ken Skip Knight, Dick Carroll and Assistant Coach Bob Gilham. Rolling past Huntingburg 49-44, the Panthers made their season opener a successful one. The Hilltoppers traveled to Terre Haute and dropped their first game to the Gerstmeyer state finalists, 5l-65. Bicknell then came to the Pant'her's den and dropped a 68-54 engagement. Tell City invaded Reitz next and went home on the short end of a 56-46 score, Washing- ton's Hatchets fell before the Panther onslaught, 5l-47, in an overtime affair as the Panthers continued their domination of SIAC competition. The Panthers met disaster in the Holiday Tourney, falling to Princeton and Winslow 45-52 and 44-53 respectively. Lincoln dropped Reitz 56-36, and then Terre Haute Garfield, previously unbeaten, bowed to the Riggsmen 54-48. Still hop- ping mad from last year's one point defeat, the Panthers rolled past the Bosse Bulldogs for an avenging 55-44 decision. Travel- ing to Bedford, the hot Panthers won their sixth straight SIAC victory 48-43. Princeton cooled Reitz off as they won their second game from the Panthers in a tightly played ballgame 50-53. The Reitzmen came back in a whirlwind to stop Boonville 48-35. Jerry Clayton and the crew from Central, with twelve wins and two losses ,challenged Reitz and went home on the short end of a 5l-48 score, The red hot Winslow Eskimos put' the freeze on Reitz for the second time, 6l-4l. New Albany fell 52-49 in a game that' had the fans screaming. Memorial was the last victim of the Panthers in the regular season as the Hilltoppers snowed them under in a 60-42 rout. Coach Bud Ritter's Peru squad stopped Reitz 50-4l as the Panthers couldn't hit the Tiger's basket, Jasper's Wildcats stopped Reitz in the season's final game 57-4l as the Wildcats fin- ished second in the Sl-AC. Sectional time came with twelve teams all aiming at one goal, the Evansville championship. Wadesville invaded E-town to play the Panthers and went home dazed as the Reitzmen unloaded a barrage of field goals and free throws for a 82-46 victory. Lincoln was the next opponent of the Panthers and, putting on one of the longest and most amazing stlals ever displayed at Central gym, they downed the Riggsmen 30-32. This year's team won twelve games and lost nine. They won the Southern Indiana Athletic Conference championship with ten wins and two defeats in league play. They finished second in the city race with three victories and one loss as they played one game less than Central who had a four and on record. They also placed one player on the all-city team and one on the all-SIAC team. Page 59 Members of the l954 Reitz reserve basketball team are, from left to right, first row: Ron Wilson, Paul Rice and Tom Terrell. Second row: Bill Goins, Ottie Droste, Gary Moore, Bill Thurneck and Bill King. Standing: Ron Talley, Leonard Deeds, Charles Graff, Mike Bentzen, .lim Harding, Russell Kuhn and Coach Bob Gilham. l Members of the l954 Reitz freshman basketball team are, from left to right, first row: Charles Scherer, manager, Don Pfohl, Andrejs Mezmalis, Bob Nichol- son and Bob Veeck, manager. Second row: Richard Henderson, Albert Roehr, Clifford Trainer and Don Matthews. Third row: Coach William Trott, Bill Loos, Larry Schultz, Russell Dutton, George Bruner, Lowell Volkman and Tommy Turpen. Mike Mobley was not present when the picture was taken. Page 58 Coach Robert Gilham's reserve team had a good season and brought home another city championship. The squad started the year with three victories, de- feating Huntingburg 140-293, Bicknell f4O-363 and Tell City C39-24l. They were defeated by a rugged Washington team C52-379. Not letting the defeat' affect them, they rolled up four more victories before losing to Bedford C5l-3ll. They completed the season with a total of nine vic- tories and six losses. The Panthers had plenty of height-ranging from 5 feet ll inches to 6 feet 4 inches. The team consisted of five juniors and nine sophomores. Junior-sized cagemen ended a good season for Reitz by downing the Southern Indiana Conference Champs, Central. Starting the season, the young Panthers lowned two city teams in a row, Mater Dei and Bosse. Then they traveled to Tell City to con- tinue the trial of victory. Returning to the city they met Memorial's Tigers head-on, but the little Tigers fell to the wayside of the strong shooting tactics of the Panthers. Lincoln also felt the sting of defeat from the young Hill- toppers. Then the Panthers had their first round with Cen- tral's Bruins. lt was the Panthers' first loss for the season. But' the tide turned and the Panthers snatched two more victories from the hands of Mt. Vernon and Bosse. Losing in the SIAC tourney, the Panthers bounced back to win the four final city games, Coach William Trott's boys had a good season. Members of the 1953 Reitz varsity and reserve football teams are, from left to right, first riw: Jere Richardson and John Vaught, managers, Lowell Jackson, Larry Stofleth, Bill Iglehart, David Austill, Norbert Hancock, James Byers, James Horr, Don Vandeber, Bob Martin, Fred Tramel, Joe Herron, Bob Fisher, Phil Aramowicz, Wayne Moore, Jim Bromrn, Jim Pirtle, David Cox and Managers Tommy Schmidt and Skip Williams. Second row: Cub Coach Wayne Weller, Equipment Manager Raymond Jones, Freshman Coach James Barnett, Principal Neil V. Pierce, Bob York, Harold Stone, Lowell Farrar, John lmel, Fred Russell, John Marshall, Gary Bailey, David Deer, Emerson Tornatta, Geralo Branham, Richard Bogard, Jim Julian, Jerry Paul, Joe Lamble, Aaron Bolton, Bob Davis, Coach Herman Byers and Athletic Business Manager Cecil Couts. Ellerbrook, Louie Garst, Allen Steve Garrett, Michael Bentzen, Jim Harding, Gerald Crowley, George Hape, Tony Weller, Pat Lyons, David Huff and Coaches Third row: Jim Evans, Orvel Happe, Gary Reke, Bill Zinn, Gerald Wallace, Ronald Talley, Frank Carr, Frank Harrington, Dailey, Harry Gonterman, Larry Jack Schaeffer and Alan Horn. City, SIAC, and State Championships were gathered on the hilltop this year by the football team. To win all these honors they had to complete a ten game schedule without a defeat. The Panthers opened their season with an easy win over Barret of Henderson, 34-O. The team displayed the power in that game that was to carry them all through the season. Traveling next to Indianapolis, they played Cathedral and showed fine form by defeating them 20-O. Gerstmeyer of Terre Haute proved to be the Panthers' stiff- est early season competition. Taking advantage of a Hilltopper fumble, they were the first team to score on the Reitz eleven. The Panthers won by a 20-6 margin. At New Albany the Panthers gave a sturdy Bulldog team a 47-6 walloping. Coming home to play a hepped-up Bosse Bulldog squad, the Blue and Gray gridders eked out a I4-7 victory in a game that was played hard all the way. Mater Dei, a young school trying to engineer a triumph over the Hilltoppers for the first time, was leading 7-6 at half time. This was the first and only time during the entire season that the Panthers were behind. In the second half they recovered, and wound up with a l9-7 victory over the Wild- cats. Highly touted Muncie Central, undefeated leaders of the Northern Conference, traveled to Evansville to meet the Blue and Gray. Last half touchdowns by Jim Byers and Bob Martin paced the southern defenders in a convincing I3-0 victory over the Bearcats. The Vincennes Alices were the next to fall, 44-7, in a game that featured many long touchdown plays. Don Siscel's 75 yard jaunt and Larry Stofleth's 85 yard punt return were the highlights of the game. Memorial's Bengals ventured to the West Side only to receive a 40-O trouncing at the hands of the Panthers. End Bob Fisher caught two TD passes to set the determined pace for the Blue and Gray. Central's strong Golden Bears were the last hurdle for a perfect season. Rolling up a 27-O triumph, Fred Russell's 75 yard touchdown run in the opening minutes was one of the many bright spots, Don Siscel, playing his last high school game, showed fine form as he scored twice for Reitz. Page 57 Page 56 Reitz's rough and ready freshman squad came through wiht an excellent season, losing only one of six city duels. Coach James Barnett's boys went out to meet the Mater Dei Wildcats with determination, and came out with a I4-7 vic- tory. ln the next game, the frosh squad pushed the Central greenies over defeat's bluff by a scor of 2l-7. The Panther gridmen broke a halftime tie, and went ahead to score two more touchdowns. Bosse's freshman team fell under the rolling wheel of vic- tory the young Panthers were pushing. They held Bosse score- less, beating the little Bulldogs 6-O. They also downed Me- morial and Mater Dei, for the second time, before they felt defeat. As a result, they tied for the city crown. Cub Coach Wayne Weller's little grid-team ended the season in second place in the Evansville race. The only team to give the young ones defeat was the Central Bear Cubs, who downed them twice. They placed second by defeating the Bosse Bulldogs twice, once on their own field and once on the home gridiron. Coach Allen Horn's reserve boys played a tough schedule this year ago. Horn's pigskin packers won four games and lost two. The reserves scraped by the Mater Dei Wildcats and the Bosse Bulldogs by one touchdown each time, whipping Mater Dei l4-7 and Bosse 6-O. They also trampled over Memorial Members of the l953 Reitz Freshman football team are, from left to right, first row: James Martin, George Greathouse, Tom Mackay, Jerry Nellis, Richard Cot- tingham, Tim Rainey and Marion Lantaff. Second row: James McCutchan, Bill lCareyl Williams, Rich- ard Henderson, Alan Kobomoor, Ronald Berry, Bob Nicholson, Don Pfohl, Bill Hemmer, James Hatfield and Bill Hickrod. Fourth row: Mickey Owen, Lanny Ward, Robin Holder, Jim Coomer, Charlie Ligon, Jerry Wilson and Bob Davis. Fifth row: Larry Water- man, Tippy Trainer, Albert Roehr, Charles Dilback, Andrejs Mezmalis, Coach James Barnett, David Rick- ard, Tom Turpen and Manager Charles Scherer. Alhlelm Joanne Schmitt answered the phone many times this year to help line up the activities of the athletic tearns. Phyliss Whitten, the principal's secretary, and Nancy Tevault, attendance office secretary lcenterl, entertained their assistants at a tea, Two of the office helpers are shown: Jean Laubscher lleftl and Peggy Conaway. The cafeteria helpers not only served food each day but Hazel Cook and Gynith Clark. ln the second picture: Mmes. also helped to prepare it. They are, in the first picture, Mmes. Cammie Jackson, Hilda Elpers, Lillian Collins, Louise Baker, Emma Lupton, Edna Henry, Alma Steinback, Ruth Pater, Willie Winsett, Pearl Gross, Mary Owen, Matilda Morneweg Isabelle Lehman, Miss Lillie Klein, Mmes. Ella Mae Duncan, and Meta Braun. Page 54 Mrs Emmett Kincaid Cseatedi passed out pay checks to the other school custodians. They are, from left to right, Mr. Ewing Martin, Mrs. Susie Schraner, Mr, Lester Taylor, Mrs. Dora Varner, Mr. Edward Herr, Mrs. Marjorie Bevens and Mr, John Rieber. MR. JACK SCHAEFFER . . . Physical Education . . . Freshman Reitz Athletic Association. MR. H. EUGENE SCHOONOVER . . . Chem- istry, Physics. MRS. MILDRED SHAF- FER . . . Foods, Housing . . . Fu- ture Homemakers of America. MR. AMOS H. SICKBERT . . . Mechanical Drawing, Rotating Shop . . . Chess and Checkers Club. MRS. HELEN SNIPPER . . . Written Expression, Spanish, English . . . Circulo Espanol Uno. MISS BER- NICE STEVENS . . . Artcratt . . . Handicraft Club. MISS RUBY STRICKLAND . . . American Problems, U. S. History. MR WILFRED SUSOTT . . . Alge- bra, Geometry . . . Mathematics Recreation Club. MR. WILLIAM TROTT . . . Physical Education . . . Baseball Club, Freshman Basketball and Varsity Baseball Coach. MRS. VIRGINIA TYREE . . . Typing, General Business. MRS. EDITH WELLS . . . English, Latin . . . Latin Club. MR. GILBERT WIEHE . . . Choir . , . Foreign Correspondence Club, Upperclass- man Popular Music Club. MRS. JO ANN WILSON . . . English, Ameri- can Literature . . . Bible Club. MRS. GENE WITTENBERG . . . Typing, Shorfhand . . . Girls Ping Pong Club, GAA. MISS HELEN WORTMAN . . . Spanish . . . Cir- culo Espanol Dos. MISS ALICE ZIM- MERMAN . . . Art, Artcraft . . . Handicraft Club, National Art Honor Society. MR. WAYNE WEL- LER . . . Counselor . . . Student Council. Page 53 Page 52 MR. MARK KILMER . . . Biology . . . Science Talent Club, PYC. MR. SIMON KRUEGER . . . Biology. MISS NATALIE LAND . . . School Nurse. MR. NORMAN LEWELLYN . . . Metal Shop . . . Casting Club. MR. GLENN LINNEMANN . . . Journal- ism, English . . . Press Club, Quill and Scroll. MR. ALBERT LONG- BRAKE . . . Metal Shop . . . Astronomy Club. MR. HENRY LUERSSEN . . . U. S. History, World History . . . Boys Ping Pong Club. MR. EDWARD MARLIN . . . Clerical Practice . . . Future Business Leaders of America Club. MISS JEAN MARSHALL . . . English, Written Expression . . . Junior Red Cross. MRS. AUGUSTA MCCLURE . . . Algebra, General Math. MRS. DOR- OTHY MILLER . . . English, Writ- ten Expression . . . Future Teachers of America Club. MRS. OPAL MOON . . . Algebra, Geometry, Sen- ior and General Math . . . Charm MR. WILLIAM MOORE . . . Speech, Radio Expression, Drama, English . . . Strut and Fret, Thes- pians, Fail Play Coach. MR. CHARLES NEWTON . . . American Problems, Psychology, Citizenship . . . Psychology Club. MR. CLAR- ENCE RIGGS . . . Physical Educa- tion, Drivers Training . . . Basket- ball Club, Varsity Basketball Coach. MISS SALIBELLE ROYSTER . . . Advance Composition, American Literature, English Literature . . . National Honor Society. Club. I i i l Page 50 MR. NEIL V. PIERCE . . . Princi- pal. MISS VIOLA EBLEN . . . Dean of Girls. MR. JOHN WALTZ . . . Assistant Principal, Dean of Boys. MISS INEZ AHLERING . . . Typ- ino, Shorthand, Secretarial Training, MR. LEROY BALDWIN . . . Radio, Physical Science, Biology , . . Pro- jectionist Club, MR. JAMES BAR- NETT . . , Health-Safety, Physical Education . . . Student Assembly Club, Tennis and Freshman Football Coach. MRS. MAYBELL BATSON . . . Citizenship, U. S. History. MR, JAMES BENNETT , . . Bookkeeping, Business, Typing . . . Boys Golf Coach. MRS, AGNES BEREAU . , . Physical Education, Health-Safety . . . GAA. MRS. MARY BOYLES . . . Eng- lish, Advance Composition, Written Expression, MR, EUGENE BRISTOW , . . English, Drama . . . Sword and Masque, Senior Play Coach. MR. HERMAN BYERS . . . Physical Edu- cation . . , Football Club, Varsity Football Coach, MR. CHARLES CALHOUN . . . American Problems, U. S. History. MRS. VIRGINIA CAPPS , . . Short- hand, Transcription, Typing. MR. CECIL COUTS . . . Senior Math Re- yiew, General Math, Algebra . . . 7ew!m4 Mr. Ed Marlin is the adviser to the Future Business Leaders of America chapter in Reitz. Officers for the year were Cleft to rightl Charles Peerman, June Upton, Noel McDonald and Wilma Lee. Noel and June were also officers of the state organization and conducted the meetings held at Ball State this spring. Jim Pierce, Fred Walton and Dave Riggs represented Reitz in the State Debate Contest and William Felker took part in the radio announcers' contest. Page 48 Engaging in a bit of geo- metrical ground-work, Jerry Saddler and David Fellwock work under the supervision of Mr. 'Everett Hendershot. Barbara Davis, Shirley Mar- shall, Pat Shrieber and Iola Epley were hostesses to some youngsters in home nursing class. Shop students Jerry Peckin- paugh, Bob Hape, Ronald Burg- dorf and Dale Riggs give the bicycle parking stand a tryout after it was constructed in their class. Page 47 l Page 46 Health and Safety class mem- bers got a good lesson in chang- ing a tire. Some of the class and onlookers are Jerry Paul lkneelingi and, left to right, Charlie Freels, Lowell Jackson, Mary Lou Gardner, Ottie Droste, Sharon King, Alan Sturm, Leo Dutton, Patsy Branham, Mr. Al- lan Horn, Jim Patton, David Fellwork, Randy Crayner, Clyde Higgs, Jack Horstketter Charlie Koonce, Jim Julian, and Bob Weese. Investigating the sensibility of a Ouija board, Bob Schmitt llefti and Barbara Dailey pon- der a few questions. Susan Da- vis lcenterl seems to be a bit skeptical of the experiment in psychology class. Conducting court in their American problems class, Pat Schriber is a member of the jury at the left. Emily Dailey and Shirley Rueger are the law- yers and Terry McCullough is on the witness stand. JoAnn Cummings lcenteri and James Gidcumb lstandingl serve as lawyers and June Upton is the judge. Jerry Jewell is another member of the jury. Margaret Buttram and Hilda Winstead puff their cheeks to direct their jets on a bit of craft work in the top picture. Spanish classes parlay prepa- rations for Pan American day into a lot of fun. Some of those who helped are, from left to right, Gayle Kaeuper, Judy Trenton, Gayle Slifer, Donna Brooks, Charlotte McRoberts, Carolyn Everly, Sharon Bebout, Joyce Hartford, Bob Hollis, Gail Fisher, Nancy Weaver and Bar- bara Moorehead. Miss Helen Wortman is watching them. The figures Bob and Barbara are holding were not members of the class. Examining the dry bones of a real gone guy, Janice Kissel and Alan Happe in the bottom picture find that there's a skel- eton in the closet of most biol- ogy classes. 9 Page 45 Page 44 Clerical practice students such as Shirley Webster, Shirley Moorhead and Joyce Benthall in the top picture helped turn out the reams of mimeographed material used in all the classes in Reitz. Charles Brooks holds cleaning fluid in the center picture while Patsy McNeeIy and Ronald Phil- lips clean their typewriters. Looking on are lmogene Ed- wards, Pat Felty, Evelyn Bar- ton, Jackie Beck and Deanna Samples in the background. Working their cases, Wayne Lamb, Alan Kokomoor and Robin Holder fill their sticks in print shop in the lower picture. Swim lda Mary McCut'chan received the Mary Louise Mueller Social Studies Award this year. Peggy Conaway received the Na- tional Office Managers Association award. Nancy Altheide was second place winner. Tommy Greenberg, Shirley Dauble and Sharon Dunham were the Kiwanis Arion Award winners for band, choir and orchestra this year. Jerry Compton received the Na- tional Association of Cost Accountants award. Q. j 1 ,tglfi .,,:E5i'E5EfEiE1:EE5Eii g A Q . ,E:E5 x,i5b ll. .1 f ses ,, .- 1'. , 3 -if.-e i.,. 1 -1 ' -4... .- ,.... . ,..-.-.- r Q- A N s .: ra. M K 3 sl? ifsgwa Q. .sa ':'-: .:i:5s-5-ein., - ' cw, g g ..... .. V .,.. .4 . ' Qs A.. 5535 . vw .x s i A Q Q Ny -Q fs ts 2 .... W3 'i '-2 : .':':1:fE ii' - 255: m c . :- V ::.:f:. ..,. .,-:: X :. --A ' ., '-- : Phyliss Maynard r e c e i v e d the Women's Rotary Award. Phyliss often helped as assistant in the Main Office. Miss Royster complimented Ida Mary McCutchan and Mary Schoonmaker for their winning essays on the subject of Hire the Handicapped. Page 4l As a part of the annual Pan American Day celebration, Carol Combs Cseated in frontl reigned as Miss United States, Shirley Dauble, Miss Pan America, and Sharon Bebout, Miss.Mexico. Behind them are the attendants who represented the Pan American Republics. They are Marsha Kroener, Sandra Dunham, Joyce Benthall, Darlene Schillinger, Linda Barton, Sandra Snurpus, Delores Bergdolt, Nancy Altheide, Joyce Hartford, Mary Schoonmaker, Greta Seegmueller, Suzanne Thompson, Ruth Helfrich, Gayle Kaeuper, Joan Wettergreen, Shirley McCarter, Margaret Marynell, Carolyn Russell and Jean Schmitt. Shirley Dauble reigned as Miss Pan America in the annual program produced by the Span- ish students of Miss Helen Wortman and Mrs. Helen Snip- per. Page 40 The football queen with her attendants were, from the boftom step to the top, Joella Scott, Joan Corns, Ann McDow- ell, Doris Keck Day Cqueenl, Nancy Weaver, Shirley Webster, Sharon Dunham, Sue Hastings, Carol Combs, Pat John- son and Jackie Nicholson. Majorettes Barbara Simpson, Jean Schmitt and Sharon Saltz- man were part of the line which made an arch under which Doris Keck Day walked on her way to be crowned as Reitz's l953 football queen at the homecoming game. Page 39 l Skip Knight received the Kiwanis basketball award for the year trorn Mr, Don Raeber, president of the downtown Kiwanis. Coach Clarence Riggs received the SIAC championship trophy tor the basketball team this year. Jim Byers was presented with the Kiwanis football award forthe season by Mr. Russell Barnett, president of the Kiwanis Club, Coach Herman Byers stands beside the city championship trophy which his l953 city, SIAC and state championship team retained for Reitz High School. Page 38 Joan Howe and Lois Donham tied for first place in the Ameri- can Association of University Women's Poetry contest. Anne Mandeville received third place, Mary Schoonrnaker received the first place gold medal in the state English contest and Lois received a third place bronze medal, Thespians, who were honored for their work in drarnatics, were, left to right: Carol Grimm, Billie .lo Myers, Charlie Myers, Jim Schaffer, David BeMiller, David Riggs, Jim Paul, Leo Wentzel and Dennis Brown. In the state regional mathematics contest, Lee Riggs re- ceived first place in the geometry tstg Barbara Niethammer won first place in the comprehensive test, and Danny Bumb won scond place in the algebra contest. Page 37 QT' Page Recognized for their outstanding work in art, members of the Art Honor Society are, from left' to right, first row: Rosalie Young, Ruth Grunow and Charlotte Aurs. Second row: Judith Deer, Frankie Costello, Erika Gresse and Irma Gresse. Third row: Marlene Weber, Myrna Fox, Peggy Simpson, Darlene Dick and Joyce Hittner. Fourth row: Charles Freels, Russell Dawson and Ed Lipking. Quill and Scroll members received recognition for superior work in journalism. They are, from left to right, first row: Sue Kikpatrick, Diane Kirkpatrick, Barbara Simpson and Betty Nordhausen. Second row: Ruth Kluge, Ruth Helfrich, Mary Klipsch and Eleanor Tyler. Third row: Linda Love, Ann McDowell, Nancy Heinlin and Delores Bergdolt. Fourth row: Billie Jo Myers, Anne Mandeville, Mary Schoonmaker and Jackie Nicholson. Fifth row: Nancy Sander, Marlene Klueg, Sue Hastings and lda Mary McCutchan. Sixth row: Jim Paul, Ottie Droste and Noel McDonald. Caught in the act of drawing a picture of either the missing treasurer or the adviser, Quill and Scroll officers were, from left to right, Sue Hastings, resident' Charlotte McRoberts vice-president, and Jackie Nicholson, secre- P I , tary. The treasurer, Etaoin Shrdlu, could not be present when the picture was taken. National Honor Society officers were, from left to right, standing, Robert Fawcett, treasurer, Jim Byers, vice-president, and Sharon Dunham, president. Shirley Dauble, secretary, is seated. Page 35 i a Page 34 Some of the members of National Honor Society were, from left to right, first row: Jo Ann Cummings, Shirley Dauble, Sharon Bebout, Shirley McCarter, Jackie Nicholson, Francis Raleigh and Barbara Fischer. Second row: Eleanor Tyler, Nancy Altheide, June Upton, Mildred Veach, Lois Koewler and Charlotte Aurs. Third row: Jim Pirtle, Phyllis Maynard, Charles Peerman, Myrna Culley, Ida Mary McCutchan, Dawn Bulkley, Irma Gresse and Peggy Ccnaway. Fourth row: Mary Schoon- maker, Anne Mandeville, Sharon Dunham, Lois Donham, Paul Kissel, Ronnie Burgdorf and Noel McDon- ald, Fifth row: David BeMiller, Jim Schaffer, Charlotte McRoberts, Linda Love, Donald Sander and Charles English. Sixth row: Bob Fawcett, Jim Harris, Jim Byers, Bob Martin, Norbert Hancock and Harry Camp- bell. Seventh row: George Kriete- meyer, Donald Kinder, Fred Tramel and Jim Paul. Some members of the National Junior Honor Society were, from left to right, first row: Janice. Imel, Donna Fleming, Phyllis Brothers, Maxine Eckerty, Leona Long, Phyl- lis Harrison, Delores Blackburn and Ethel Pease. Second row: June Winternheimer, Ruth Helfrich, Ruth Ahrens, Janet Nobblit, Hilda Win- stead, Frieda Williamson and Mary Lou Mahaenholtz, Third row: Carla Thornton, Carol Hudson, Louise Bellman, Carol Yokel and Donna Higdon, Fourth row: Ann Buster, Dorothy Scott, Ramona Clark, Mary Klipsch, Wilma Eckerty, Betty Nord- hausen, Jere Richardson, Charles Myers and Lloydene Morris. Fifth row: Ruth Kluge, Janice Wissner, Myrna Fox, Jo Ann Powell, Mar- lene Weber, Nancy Danner, Marlene Muth, Janice Couts and Sarah Wil- son. Sixth row: Peggy Simpson, Margaret Hettenbach, Linda Har- mon, Diane Kirkpatrick, Susan Kirk- patrick, Connie Brammer, Bettye Kerney, Deanna Martin, Rita Te- vault, Nancy McCurdy, Deanna Wesselman, Tony Weller, Jim Boyd, Tom Greenberg, Robert Fulton, Gayle Slifer, Carolyn Everly, De- lores Bergdolt, Billie Myers, Judy Trenton, Margie Bosse, Joan Rein- inga, Shirley Pyle, Judy Hoffherr and Gearlene Plump. Eighth row: James Dawson, Gerald Korff, Bob Webb, Sharon Waters, Jerry Comp- ton and Adelia Jeffries, Ninth row: Butch Fisher, Mike Herrell, James Geiser, Ronald Schwartz, Katy Dannenberg, Carol Brown, Sharon Hill, Joyce Hittner and Sandy Hie- man. Tenth row: Buddy Branson, Jack Kissinger, Ronald Greubel, Janice Oschman, Diane Kirkpatrick, Judy Korff, Doris Aud and Mar- garet Kissel. Eleventh row: Eloise Boeke, Don Widick, Kendall Krouse, Jerry Saddler, Leo Wentzel, Katy Niethammer, Emile Klueg, Norma Jean Klueg, Joyce Allen, Nancy Sander and Paula Sherrod. Twelfth row: Mike Robb, Mell Wellborn, Walter Roth, Mike Acker, Shelby Lynn, Gary Moore, Bill Felker, Charles Epperson, Barbara Jones, Joan Fleming, Gail Fisher, Dave Fellwock, Herman Kraemer, Lee Riggs, Alan Sturm and George David. Jlmcm ancf NWMJ4 Page 32 Future Farmers of America plan programs and activities which will help them in their future agricultural endeavors. Their officers are, from left to right, seated: Fred Walton, Paul Kissel, Ronald Burgdorf, Bob Hahn, Jerry Peckinpaugh and fstandingl Bob Hape. Future Homemakers of America, in a merry way, learn the tricks of making a house a home. Their officers are, from left to right, Norma Klueg, Wanda Miller, Mildred Bockelman, Nancy Sander and Shelby McCutchan. The Senior Play this year was a dramatization of Lost Horizon from the novel by James l-lilton. lt was pre- sented April 29-30. Above are some of the scenes. iUpper left? David Deeg and Shirley Dauble make plans for leaving Shangri-La. lUpper right? Robert Hollis, Gary Harmon and Herbert Walden istandingb and David Deeg lseated? discuss the mystery of the Tibetan lamasairy. iLower left? Herbert Walden, Dawn Bulkley and Gary Harmon study the grandeur of the Himalaya Mountains. il.ower rightl Robert Hollis has an interview with Jim Townsend. To the right Linda Dowdle and Joe Lamble portray the leading roles they held in the Christmas time presenta- tion ot The Nativity. They represented Mary and Joseph. Others in the cast were Judy Trenton, Jerry Jarvis, Norbert Hancock, David Cox, Don Hatfield, Ray Couch and Glenn Linville. Nancy Burgdorf, Alice Loh- man, Susan Craig, Maribeth Jones, and Margaret Mary- nell served as narrators. Page 31 S Home Sweet Homicide was the fall play presented Novem- ber l9-2O. Some scenes from the play are fupper leftl Billie Jo Myers and Anne Mandeville pouncing on Charles Myers, Cupper right! David BeMiller and David Riggs engaging in a heated discussion, and lbelow right? Billie Jo Myers, Susanne Thompson and Jim Schaffer ex- amine hot evidence. Thespians pitched in to pro- duce Running Wild March 4-5. Caught in the act fto the lefti Don Hatfield, Denis Brown and Charlie Myers register sur- prise at a sudden dash of water, fleft centerl Billie Jo Myers and Alvada Burgdorf plot to snag movie roles, lrighti Susanne Thompson and Jim Paul talk over wild flowers as a couple of botanists of the pro- fessional and amateur levels, and fbottomi Leo Wentzel and David BeMiller talk over their problems Cstandingl behind Jim Schaffer, Nanna Hart, Anne Mandeville and David Riggs, who have eyes only for each other. Among the active members of the Student Assembly Club who arranged for pep assemblies were labovel Louise Bellman, Connie Hitch and Charlotte Aurs caught in the act of putting up posters. Reitz's cheerleaders for the year were Nancy Weaver, Jim Schaffer, Doris Keck Day, Jim Mays and Carol Combs. Page 29 Jerry Sexton, Jim Paul, Jim Pirtle, Norbert Hancock, Phyllis Maynard, Nancy Heinlin and Joyce Hartford labovel were Panther Youth Center Committee members for the year. Sharon Steinmetz, Mary Wade, Wilma Jones, Rosalie Young, Judy Flanigan and Bob Koehler lbelowl were some of the Junior Red Cross members who helped to fill a school chest to send overseas. Page 28 Student Council ofhcers labovel for the year have been Charles Epperson, treasurer, Joan Fleming, secretary, Doris Keck Day, wce-pre9dentg and Jhn Pauh preydent Girls Qabinet Officers fbelowl for the year have been Nancy Weaver, secretary, Gayle Slifer, vice-president, and Charlotte McRoberts, treasurer. Page 27 Members of the l954 Reitz Concert Choir were, from left to right, first row: Dolores Nelson, Nancy Morgan, Shirley Dauble, Sharon Neu, Ruth Ahrens, Marjorie Bell, Linda Dowdle, Margie Deer, Nancy Burgdorf, Irma Gresse, Doris Phelps, Rickie Gresse and Angela Keil. Second row: Lois Donham, lrene Rei- man, Ruth Helfrich, Doris Aud, Dawn Bulkley, Carol Keil, Eleanor Tyler, Sharon King, Susan Craig, Gail Fisher, Carolyn Everly, Shirley Roberson, Carol Niehaus, Emilie Raley and Bar- Glee Club members were, from left to right, first row: Joyce Clayman. Shirley Pyle, Doris Herrenbruck, Sue Scraper, Janet Harlan, Phyllis Harrison, Betty Williams, Delores Blackburn, Peggy Small and Carol Eggers. Second row: Janice Oschman, Sara Wilson, Janice Schroeder, Darlene Hape, Ruth Rice, Maxine Eckerty, Janet Shroeder, Marian Maxey, Betty Cox and Sandra Leach. Third row: Virginia Fischer, Carla Williams, Deanna Williams, Emily Klueg, June Winternheimer, Barbara Montgomery, Sue Sears, Sharon Rueger, Judy Austill, Linda Barton, Judy Christmas and Myrlan Hoffman. Fourth row: Diana Trainer, Ronald Schwartz, Donald Chandler, Eddie Davis, Drexel Brothers, Neil McCutchan, Jack Demming, George Hape, Donald Kuhs, Harold Long, Barbara Cobb and Betty Nenneker. bara Rhodes. Third row: Phyllis Maynard, Ruth Kluge, Delores Bergdolt, Jerry Compton, Harlan Swope, David Riggs, Jim Mays, Noel McDonald, Alan Sturm, Bettye McLemore, Joan Howe, Barbara Hobgood and Nancy Sander, Fourth row: Jim Paul, Richard Barfield, Bob Hollis, Norman Pearce, Bill Cinderson, Jim Storey, Ray Peckinuagh, Tony Matthews, Larry Scales, David Deeg, Jerry Saddler, Pat Bryan, Clarence Niederhaus and Jerry Jarvis. Freshman Boys Chorus members were, from left to right, first row: Jim Bozarth, Bill Williams, Ronald Holtz, Jimmy Coomer, Charles Veach and Steve Sander. Second row: Charles Hiatt, Jack Summers, Jerry Schofield, Bruce Houston, Tim Gervin, Pat McDonald, Bob Brede- meier and Larry Clary. Third row: Joe Rudd, Bob Hubbard, Fred Waters, Bob Gross, Brent Snow, John Menikheim, Gerald Brooks, Carrol Buchanan and Gene Summers. Page 26 Seniors who were members of the Reitz Orchestra this year are, from left to right, seated: lda Mary McCutchan, Darlene Schillinger, Pearl Scherer Fischer, Pat Embrey, Char- lotte Kirby and Janice Bitts, standing: David BeMiller, Sharon Dunham and James Townsend. This year the l35 members of the cert' and orchestra have won many contributed much time and effort to the public. Among the performances the band Reitz High School con- awards and have also entertain students and has made are those at six football games lone in Vincennesl, one parade, two student concerts, one spring concert and qne basketball game performance. However, Mr, Harry Hart, the Reitz band direc- tor, believes the band's greatest job and accomplishment was providing music in pep assemblies to boost' the spirit of the student body and the teams. Members of the band won ten seats in the All-City band. Reitz was also well represented in the district and state solo and ensemble contests. There were l7 first division winners in the district and lO firsts in the state. David Deeg, Sharon King and the trombone trio were fea- tured as soloists with the band. Sharon and David sang selec- tions from Roberta, Jack Hamilton, Gerald Fuchs and James Townsend, members of the trombone trio, played Slippery Gentlemen. Soloist with the orchestra was lda Mary McCutchan. lda Mary's selection was Rondo Brilliant, by Mendelssohn. One of the main numbers the orchestra played was Schubert's Unfinished Symphony. Page 25 Seniors who were members of the Reitz Band this year are, from left to right, first row: Charles Blake, Darrell Lowrance, lrma Gresse, James Gidcumb, David Deeg, David Riddle and Janice Taylor, second row: Jerry Huff, Charlotte Kirby, Char- lotte McRoberts, Jim Rapp, Jim Townsend, David BeMiller and Virginia Landry. Reifz's majorettes were, from left to right, Georgia Timberlake, Norma Martin, Wilma Sims, Anne Mandeville, Jean Schmidt, Barbara Simpson and Sharon Salfzman. Page 24 For the second semester, fabove upper leftl Ann McDowell was news editor of the MIRROR, Linda Love, editor-in-chief, and Noel McDonald, photographeri Anne Mandeville and Jim Paul fupper righti were appointed front page editors. Jackie Nicholson flower leftl was editor-in chief of the Senior Edition, Doris Aud, assistant to Nancy Altheide Ccenterl business mana- ger, and Nancy Morgan, ad manager, and Barbara Simpson, circulation manager flower lefti. Delores Bergdolt fbelow, upper leftl began the semester as associate news editor and became first page editor, other page editors were iupper righti Mary Schoonmakr, editorial, Mary Klipsch, feature, Nancy Sander, associate then front page, Billie Jo Myers, associate, Carolyn Everly, third page, and Ruth Kluge, third page, Cstandingi Joan Fleming and Betty Nordhausen were columnists, and Ruth Helfrich, an inside page editor, Jim Townsend flower left? was managing editor, Jim Paul, Eleanor Tyler, Phyllis Kleinknecht, Marlene Klueg, Nancy Altheide and Shirley McCarter served on the Senior Edition staff. Page 23 New MIRROR staff members gathered in their office last faH to plan the fHteen issues of the school paper they would produce. ln the picture lupper leftJ Anne Mandeville was ednodal edhor and Ida AAary AAcCutchan, edHor. Standing, Noel McDonald and Jim Paul were photographers, Jim was also managing editor. To the right, Joan Wettergreen and Eleanor Tyler were feature editors, Linda Love, news editor, Mary Klipsch, associate news editor, and Skip Knight' lseatedl, sports editor, Lower left, Harry Campbell lseatedl was sports editor and Sarah Warren, artist, Marlene Klueg, girls sports editor, JoAnn Klueg, assistant news editor, Ann McDowell, first page editor, and Barbara Simpson, circulation manager. Seniolz grfzllfion all 7alwL My, how time fliesl lt seems only yesterday that we fthe class of '54J were freshmen. l can well remember how l roamed around being looked upon as a greeny. I recall with ease how l longed for the day when l could heckle the new crop of fresh- men. That day came and now has nearly passed. ln fact, many of us will be starting all over next fall in various colleges and universities. Looking back through the last year we seniors can recall many events which will linger in our memories forever. We started to school back in September and were welcomed by a state cham- pionship football team. Reigning as football queen was Doris Keck Cnow Mrs. Doris Dayi, and Jimmy Byers received the coveted Kiwanis award. Re- member how Reitz stood out on the city, confer- ence, state and even the national teams? Then came basketball season, and with it we won another S. I. A. C. championship, How can we forget that last minute shot by Lincoln's Don Moor- man in the sectionals? Once again the Kiwanis Page 22 club visited Reitz and this time it was to honor Skip Knight. Of course we will never forget the events that took place in the spring. There were picnics, parties, the Prom, Commencement, and spring sports. Reitz continued in her winning ways this spring, The baseball team won the city championship and the track team followed suit with the same. Yes, of the whole year, we will probably remember more from those happy spring days. As we seniors say our final goodbyes, we turn back once again to the school and friends we have known and say, Thanks for the memories, may you remember us as we shall remember you. Yes, seniors, these are the things which I shall always remember, What other events do you recall? Reitz has been good to us during the last four years. As we turn our backs on her we bid her a fond farewell. To the rest of my class I say best of luck, and as the' words of the concert choir's theme song goes, The Lord bless you and keep you. -Jim Paul. 014154 ancffqalfialllfiwi Page 20 Scholarship winners were greeted by Mr. Wayne Weller in his office. They are, left to right, Charles Peerman, Evansville Centennial, Bob Fawcett, DePauw Rector, Georgie Krietmeier, Evansville academic, Barbara Niethammer, Indiana State, Shirley Dauble, Evansville music, Nancy Altheide, Evansville Centennial, Jim Townsend, Ball State, and Sharon Bebout, Evansville Centennial. Others were Darlene Schillinger, Evansville Centennial, James Schaffer, Purdue honorary, lseatedl and, left to right, Myrna Culley, Indiana State special merit, Dawn Bulkley, Oakland City, Anne Mandeville, Evansville Manufacturers As' sociation, Lois Donham, Evansville Centennial, lda Mary McCutchan, Emily Orr Clifford music, David BeMiller, Purdue honorary, David Deeg, Indiana University. Not pictured are Harry Campbell, Evansville Centennial, Eleanor Tyler, Purdue, Ted Karges, Evansville achievement, and John Reininga, Purdue state, Glaufl The two distinguished gentlemen now entering are George Kreitemeyer and Charles Peerman. Both are brilliant account- ants in the employ of the government. There are only a few more members of the old class yet to arrive. The P.L.A. members are already here. The Professional Loafers Association roster includes Don Truitt, Jim Gidcumb, Jerry Williams, Gary Peerman, Raymond Maines, Jim Runau, Alvin Schnautz, and Peggy Hape Wigand. One by one, the remaining members of the class are arriv- ing. Bill Hudson, president of the Bum's Association, Jim Russell, ace squsher in a wine factory, Don Siscel, telephone operator, Dale Dutton, hot rod shop owner, and Dewey Tomp- kins, mortician, are unloading their baggage in front of the hotel. Wayne Moore, hay baling consultant, Sharon Gill, auth- oress, Jim Gatewood, printer, and James Patt'on, manager of the Ford Corporation, are registering at the main desk. Charles Schmidt, manager of Woolworth's, Barbara Robin- son, president of Interstate Finance, Charlotte Aurs, veep at Interstate, Bob Deeg and Ted Karges, druggists, and Jerry Jewell, a mechanic, are entering the dining room. Following close behind them are Jackie Chamberlain, a female mechanic, Janice Gresham, an interior decorator, Marsha Hall, owner of a man's apparel shop, and Jerry Huff, a plumber. Charlotte Kirby, chic in a dress of her own design, Donald Kinder, a cabinet maker, Mildred Veach, a hot' tamale peddler, and Sam Officers for the class of '57 during their Freshman year were Bob Hubbard, president, Steve Haas, vice-president, Karen Dreier, secretary, and Janet' Wilson, treasurer. Cron, owner of a cleaning establishment, are off in a corner making preparations for tonight's masquerade ball. Rozella Hollingsworth, a professional car washer, Ray Clark, a tool maker, Tom Cotton, president of Cotton Candy Co., and Jim Rapp, a mail clerk, are consulting with Alvada Burgdorf, a dietician, about the menus for the celebration. Anita Winiger, an old maid, and Jim Clayman, a candle-lighter, are brushing up on the Charleston, and sword swallower Joan Corns and cowgirl Myrna Culley are in the hotel drugstore practicing their respective arts. Jim Paul, one of the ten most wanted criminals in the country, and Norman Reinicke, a chisler at Alcatraz, were unable to attend because of prior commitments. Norma McCutchan, supervisor of a fraternity house, and Linda Love, editor of the New York Times, are discussing the younger generation while brewery president Charles Koonce and David Riddle, assistant to Einstein, are arguing over the medicinal uses of alcohol. Bill lgleheart, a private eye, and sculptor Jack Fisher have joined Ann McDowell, a canal digger, in a discus- sion of East Indian ringworms, The last two membtrs, Don Kohl- meyer and Larry Edmonson, who belong to the Foreign Legion, have just arrived and it looks as though the party is about to begin. Providing this reunion is successful, plans will soon be under- way for a party to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of our graduation. i . a 1 i l l 1 . i i l l Page 19 i i Blau? and Lois Kohler are already -here, and Verna Korsmeier and Norleen Lodgsdon are expected in a few minutes. Judy Anderson, Margie Bell, Shirley Bishop, and Ruby Bunch are also working downtown, and Betty Rabe is secretary in the Reitz attendance office. Another group of office work- ers, including Shirley Ashby, Juanita Bartek, Wanda Davis, Arlene Schauss, Betty Wilmes, Norma Williams, Katherine Zuber, Barbara lmel, Diane Hape, Mary Lutterman, Nancy Mason, Rosemary Pease, Marilyn Pease, Peggy Conaway, Mar- jorie Deer, and June Upton have just entered the lobby. White uniforms seem to be the trademark of the girls now coming into the hotel. Joyce Henke, Phyllis Kleinknecht', Gloria Metz, Sharon Ashworth, Wilma Martin, and Nancy Owen are registered nurses now. Shirley Webster and Mary Ann Griggs are dental assistants. Hopping off a tractor and dragging a plow, Jim Steinmetz, Charles Rexing, Jim lngram, Charles English, Jack Erwin, Paul Kissell, and David Austill have made their way into the lobby of the hotel. Leading prize livestock, Bob Fawcett, Bob Hahn, Tony Matthews, Loren Moore, Ken Parton, Jerry Pecken- paugh, and Dale Riggs are right behind them. Many members of the class married soon after graduation. Most of them are coming and bringing their families. Gail Sheldrup, Lily Strupp, Linda Jones, Shirley Virgin, Joyce Little- page, Nancy Young, and Joyce Zeller Wolf are already here. Shirley Rueger, Helen Curry Duncan, Pearl Scherer Fischer, Ma- rion Duvall, Joan Falls Troutt, Carlene Fulton Englebright, and Mary Head are expected on the late plane. Gloria Burgdorf, Florence Warner Carr, Jo Ann Cummings, Emma Doench, Don Clements, and Betty Tramel Fieth are arriving by train, Donna Miller, Alan Nunn, Carol Polk, Emilie Railey, Harry Brown, Bill Huegel, and Bob Elikofer are married and living aboard now, so they will be unable to attend the reunion. The following people have also made reservations for them- selves and their families: Bob Geier, Doris Keck Day, Norman Titzer, Margaret DeWeese, Ray Schroeder, Shirley Hines Dud- ley, Nancy Morgan, John Reininga, Joan Rickard, Marjorie Little Robinson, Dorothy Neumann, Shirley Newman and Con- nie Mitchell, l Page l 8 The two most famous members of our class have not ar- rived yet. Richard Barfield and Virginia Landry, our celebrities, have each served as President of the United States. lnter-planetary travel has provided interesting jobs for the people who are just' now arriving. Norman Koehler, Russell Goebel, Joe Herron, Jerry Gibson, Bob Schmitt, Loretta Under- wood, Carol Combs, and Shannon Weber fly regular schedules between the earth and Pluto. Barbara Daily is an ace space cadet, and Martha Ingram is head stewardess on a stratoliner. Mary Schoonmaker and Anne Mandeville, fashionable in their gold and silver wrappings, now own a swanky Mars bar. Next' to arrive are Ida Mary McCutchan and Lois Donham, carrying a grand piano. Both are concert pianists and accom- plished piano tuners. Dawn Bulkley, a pianist-evangelist fol- lows them. Carrying combs and shampoo, Melba Welde, Sharon Johns, Jo Nell Blaine, Barbara Vaughn, Norma Robinson, Terry McCullough, and Norma Robertson have just descended upon the group. These girls, the class beauticians, are prepared to toss off a nice coiffure and manicure at' a moment's notice. Radio and TV have provided ample opportunity for the next six people to succeed. Just arriving, Janice Taylor, Elvis Win- necke, Ferd Elfreich, Emil Gerling, Harold David, and Dave Cox are connected with local stations, Several of our members are in show business. Gary Harmon and Don Dockery, western stars, are already here. Mildred Bockelman, a television star and Doyle Oberbeck, the famous band leader, are due later from St. Louis. Jim Harris, a rodeo bronc buster, is in the hospital and will be unable to come. Joan Howe is currently appearing on Broadway, and Shirley Dauble and David Deeg are enjoying a successful season with the Metropolitan Opera. Oliver Schneider, Pat Seibert, Barbara Fisher, and Joyce Benthall are now multi-millionaires. They made their money in oil, and all have promised to come to the reunion and share the wealth with their old classmates. Everyone hopes that Shirley Grayson, Faydene Wade, and Barbara Metcalf can attend. They are world travelers and have just' completed a trip to darkest Africa. Officers for the class of '55 during their Junior year were Gary Moore, treasurer, Joan Fleming, secretary, Gearlene Plump, vice-president, and Charles Epperson, president. Glafu P Ten years have elapsed since the class of l954 was gradu- ated from Reitz High School, and the members of that class, engaged in a variety of jobs and professions, have become widely scattered. However, a gala reunion has been planned for this week and almost everyone has returned for it. The committee in charge of all arrangements for the re- union was faced with a terrific problem-finding housing for the members of the class and lsince most of them are married? their families. As a solution, they decided to lease the Hotel McCurdy for a week, and the members of th class of '54 are already beginning to arrive. The first group to arrive is now over at the main desk. After warm greetings all around, they have started talking shop. Someone is mentioning new textbooks-that's Jack Horstketterl Nancy Alsing and Nancy Altheide are standing behind him with their arms full of books. Why they're all teachers! Of course that's it, because here come Sharon Be- bout, Betty McLemore, Carolyn Reasor and Carol Keil. James Lamb, now a professor of nuclear physics, is the next to enter, and behind him are Dolores Nelson, Sharon Dunham, and Charlotte McRoberts, instructors of the physically handicap- ped. Bonnie Schlegel, carrying a 'baseball bat and a bowling ball, shouts a cheery greeting. She's now a physical education teacher. Bob Hape, teaching at Harvard, and Barbara Nietham- mer are next. Barbara's carrying a portable hypotenuse, so she must teach math. The last of the teachers to arrive are Dar- lene Schillinger, Margie Winfield, Dorothy Cary, Shirley Mc- Carter, and Sara Warren. Helen West, head of the Congressional Library, follows them, and she is joined by Bill Schoenbaum, Charles McReynolds, and Glenn Sussott. The boys are world renowned inventors and credits to the class. Laden with briefcases, Jim Tudor, Daymond Williams, Charles Perry, Harry Brown, Ron Burgdorf, David Riddle, and Jackie Nicholson are the next to join the group. Glancing coldly around, they immediately begin to extoll the merit of various and sundry items. They are, unquestionably, sales- men and . . . with the exception of Jackie, who represents a lingerie firm . . . all sell screw drivers. To the stirring strains of martial music, David Moore, Bill Kappert, Donald Temme, Allen Hinderliter, Dale Oberbeck, Officers for the class of '56 during their Sophomore year were Pat Johnson, president, Pat Bishop, vice-president, Jane Ann Hermann, secretary, and Mary Jo Niethammer, treasurer. Bob Smtih, Gereld Burgdorf, Jack Taut, Sam Wallace, Jim Niethammer, Jack Lant, Bob Hollis, Don Witt, Iris Kuester, and Mary Ann Weir enter the hotel lobby. Resplendent in their uniforms, the boys explain that they have made the armed forces their career. Iris, here on leave granted by Pogo, is head of the WAF office at the Pentagon, and Mary Ann is currently on KP at West Point. Harry Land, Ed Land, Darrell Lowrance, Gerald Brenham, and Bob DeVillez, also in service, have been detained by the President and are expected later. Lloyd Steele and Charles Miller, who are still in college, come in next. Behind them is James Bromm, head of the de- partment of brain surgery at Deaconess Hospital, and David BeMiller, who has become the world's foremost podiatrist. Jim Schaffer, a dentist, is next to enter, followed by Tom Green- berg. Tom is, at present, an optometrist, but in his spare time he coaches the basketball team at Bosse. Amid wild shouts, everyone turns to greet the athletes that made Reitz famous while we were in school. Jerry Sexton, Bob Keck, and Bob Fisher are now playing professional baseball, and Larry Stofleth is coaching the New York Yankees. Larry Higgins and Don Vandever are on the faculty of Reitz. Larry is coaching the girls' track team and Vandy is teaching effec- tive methods of blocking and tackling to the girls' football squad. Jim Horr, Noel McDonald, and Don Hartig are well- known wrestlers. Phil Aramowicz is varsity pigskin coach in Reitz and Susan Hastings is skiing instructor. Herbert Walden is playing professional hockey and Norbert Hancock is keep- ing track of all the athletes from the class quite easily. Norb is head sportscaster for CBS. Jim Byers, retiring from pro football, is now national tatting champion. Don Williams, Fred Tramel, Jim Neal, Bob Martin, Jack Wallace, Ron Schuessler, Bob Scarbrough, Jim Pirtle, Joe Mand, Ed Ashby, Richard Hettenbach, Harry Campbell, and Don Richey have distinguished themselves in the engineering and architectural fields, and Don Sander, a contractor, has just finished demolishing the Empire State Building. Many of the members of the class of '54 work in business offices around Evansville. Some of them, Bill Whitsell, Joella Scott, Barbara Simpson, Frances Raleigh, Jo Ann Taylor, and Shirley Elfreich, are just coming in. Phyllis Maynard, Sheila Frakes, Mary Fraser, Carol Grimm, Jo Ann Huff, Connie Hitch, i Page 17 As long as man has inhabited the earth his activities, and daily contacts, we have learned to JOAN WETTERGREEN JERRY R. WILLIAMS: Freshman Football Letter .... Freshman RAA.... Ping Pong Club .... Football Club. NORMA IRENE WILLIAMS: Y- Teens .... Charm Club .... Foreign Cor- respondence Club .... Monitor Cap- tain. DAYMOND WILLIAMS: Reserve Basketball Letter .... Concert Choir Letter .... Bowling Club .... Boys Glee Club .... Junior Red Cross Secretary .... Student Assembly Club. BETTY WILMES: Bowling Emblem ...Shorthand and Typing Awards... FBLA .... GAA .... Girls Bowling Club .... Charm Club Secretary .... Monitor. MARJORIE J. WINFIELD: Moni- tor .... Foreign Correspondence Club President ..... FHA .... Homeroom Repref sentative. FLORENCE WARNER CARR: GAA . . . Foreign Correspondence Club . . Astronomy Club. ANITA M. WINIGER: NAHS .... FHA .... Handicraft Club Presidents.. Drama Club .... Monitor. ELVIS R. WINNECKE: Aviation Club Secretary and Treasurer. DONALD DOYLE WITT: Freshman Reserve Basketball Letter .... Bowling Club ..., Hi-Y ,.,. Homeroom Represen- tative. JOYCE ZELLER WOLF: GAA. Bowling Club. NANCY C. YOUNG: GAA .... Y- Teens ..,. Teen Age Book Club ..,. FBLA ....Monitor. KATHERINE L. ZUBER: Twirling Club .... Teen Age Book Club .... FHA ,.,.Monitor. SHIRLEY HINES DUDLEY: Home- room Representative .... Monitor ..., GAA .... Typing Club ..,. Ping Pong Club. ' f4Ke4fl'a14lf5 stature has been measured by an apparent degree of success. Time after time, men have been con- demned to failure simply because they lacked the visible aspects of success. What, actually, is success? The word itself is rather an insignificant term for something that means so much to the human race. To define suc- cess is extremely difficult because it is an abstract quality. Success is an indefinable quality, and be- cause this is true, it cannot accurately be guaged by any known measuring device. Being comprised of many individuail aims and ambitions, it means something entirely different to each one of us. For the past four years we have been experi- menting with success. Through our various clubs, Page I6 value success highly and to place it in its true perspective, Our experiments have taught us that success, no matter what its form, is largely a matter of personal satisfaction. Any job well done is, in its own particular way, a success, something that may be viewed wtih pride. Because this school has been of primary impor- tance to us for the past four years we have con- tributed a great deal of time and effort to it. What little we have done will remain here, but, as we graduate, we are taking with us something far greater. Confidence, the most important thing that Reitz has given us, is the key to all success and to the preservation of the American way of life. -By Anne Mandeville LILLY STRUPP: Typing and Shorthand Awards .... Girls Ping Pong Club .... Underclassman Popular Music Club .... Sword and Masque .... Pan America Day. GLEN W. SUSOTT: Quill and Scroll .... Football Club .... Aviation Club .... Handicraft Club. THEODORE D. SWEET: Junior and Senior Hi-Y. JANICE F. TAYLOR: Band Letter ....Typing and Shorthand Awards.... GAA .... FAA .... Main Office Assistant ....Monitor....Charm Club Y-Teens ....Senior Gift Commlttee....Sopho- more Basketball Champs .... Junior Red Cross .... Sophomore Treasurer. JOANN TAYLOR: Choir Letter .... Monitor ..,. FTA .... Handicraft Club,... Charm Club. NORMAN F. TITZER: Projection- lst Club .... Projectionist. DEWEY R. TOMPKINS: Model airglane Club President .... Crafts u . JAMES W. TOWNSEND: NHS .... Quill and Scroll .... Band and Orches- tra Letter .... Maior and Minor Bowl- ing Letters .... AJBC National Tour- nament ..., Senior Play .... Honor Cita- tion .... MIRROR Managing Editor, Senior Edition Copy Editor .... Senior Picture Committee .... Activity Ticket Representative....Press Club .... Circulo Espanol .... Boys Bowling Club Team Captain .... Teen Age Driving Road- e-o .... Sword and Masque ..,. Strut and Fret .... Student Council .... Trombone Quartette, First Division District Solo and Ensemble Contest, Second Division State .... Trombone Trio, First Divisions District and State .... Pan America Day Music Committee. FRED TRAMEL: NHS ..,. Football Letter .... Football Club .... Track. JOAN FALLS TROUT: Majorette Letter .... DAR Club .,.. Twirling Club ,.,. Charm Club .... Dean of Girls Moni- tor. JAMES R. TUDOR: Sword and Masque .... Junior Red Cross .... Teen Age Book Club .... DE Club .... Christ- mas Play. ELEANOR TYLER: NHS .... Quill and Scroll .... Choir Letter and Chev- rons .,.. Senior Play .... FMA Vice-Presi- dent of Southwest District, Song Leader, National Convention Dele- gate .... MIRROR Staff Senior picture editor .... Commencement Committee Senior Ring Committee The Lincoln Heart .... Concert Choir Vice-President .... Pep Club. LORETTA L. UNDERWOOD: NJHS ....NAHS....Typing Awards....MIRROR Staff .... FBLA .... GAA .... Home- room Representative .... Prom Com- gittee .... Foreign Correspondence ub. MARGARET JUNE UPTON: NJHS NHS Student Council Girls Cabinet .... FBLA State and Chapter Secretary .... Foreign Correspondence Club .... Charm Club .... Homeroom Representative. DONALD R. VANDEVER: Foot- ball Letters .,.. All-State, SIAC All- Conference, All-City Football Teams ....Football Club....Freshman RAA. BARBARA uriosnwoop vAuGi-IN MILDRED S. VEACH: NHS .... Girls Cabinet .... Monitor .... Teen Age Book Club Treasurer .... Bible Club .... DAR Club. SHIRLEY R. VIRGIN: Monitor .... Selling Club .... FHA. FAYDENE WADE: Junior Red Cross President .... Sewing Club .... Y- Teens .... Library Assistant. ' MELBA WAELDE: Typing Awards FHA FBLA.... Girls Ping Pong Club .... Pan America Day..1.Moni-tor ....Girls Cabinet....Pep Club....Health Representative .... Circulo Espanol. HERBERT WALDEN, JR.: NAHS NJHS Senior Play Health Representative .... Student Council .... Hi-Y .... Chess and Checker Club President....Photography Club .... Psy- chology Club .... Sword and Masque. JACK ALLEN WALLACE: NHS .... Football Club .... Winning Shop Team Captain .... Concert Band.... Bowling Club .... Reserve Track Team .... Craftsman Editor-in-Chief .... Student Council ..., MA Senior Class Presi- dent. SAMUEL WALLACE: Hi-Y Vice- President. SARA L. WARREN: Quill and Scroll .... NAHS .... MIRROR Artist .... Girls Cabinet .... FTA .... Press Club .... Handicraft Club .... Y-Teens .... Guid- ance Office Assistant .... Senior Pos- ter Committee .... Ping Pong Club Secretary....Prom Committee. SHANNON J. WEBER: Sword and Masque .... Aviation Club .... Foreign Correspondence Club .... Monitor .... Health 'Representative .... Bible Club. SHIRLEY WEBSTER: FHA .... Stu- dent Council .... Girls Cabinet .... Moni- tor .... Football Queen Attendant .... Prom Committee. MARY ANN WEIR: Honor Cita- tion .... Pep Club .... MIRROR Staff .... Ping Pong Club Treasurer .... Upper- classman Popular Music Club....FHA ....Main Office Assistant. HELEN MARIE WEST: FHA .... Typing Practice Club .... Teen Age Book Club .... Library Assistant. 1 . Mai ' V ' . E: 'fi9EiiEifiE1Ef5'IE : :I . ., .Page I5 3. A . all ..,.,,,,,,, .. 1? iigiagez- sZ'W M - -f,. 3 ..M :ree ' ' ti ............4.........-.., ,.-.,.. .,..... , ,.,.,.,.,.,.4.A.,.,..,.. .. . . . ' A Page l4 BARBARA J. ROBINSON: Honor Citation .... Sword and Masque .... Jun- ior Red Cross .... GAA .... FBLA .... Book Store Assistant .... Monitor. NORMA JEAN ROBINSON: Typ- ing Awards .... Freshman Valley Ball Champ Team .... Monitor .... FHA .,.. Charm Club .,.. Psychology Club. SHIRLEY MAE RUEGER: Fresh- man Ping Pong Championship .... Typing and Shorthand Awards .... FHA ....GAA Secretary and Treasurern.. Student Council .... Girls Cabinet .... Athletic and Main Office Assistant ....Monitor. JIM RUSSELL: Basketball and Baseball Letters ..,. Reserve Football Letter ..., Prom Committee .... Basket- ball Club Vice-President .... Baseball Club .... Football Club. DONALD SANDER: NJHS .... NHS ...Baseball and Football Club....Stu- dent Foreman's Club Vice-President .,..Boys Ping Pong Club....Monitor. ROBERT L. SCARBRUUGH: Model Airplane Club .... Chess and Checker Club .... Concert Orchestra. JAMES A. SCI-IAFFER: NHS ..,. NJHS .... NAHS .... Thespians, Honor Thespian ..., Cheerleader '53-'54 .... Ro- tary Club Scholarship Award .... Science Fair Honorable Mention Health Representative .... Pan Ameri- ca Day Committee .... Monitor Christmas Program .... Prom Commit- tee .... Pep Club .... Freshman lnduction Speaker .... Student Council Panel .... Fall Play '53 .,.. Thespian Play '54 .... Distinction Day Committee. A R L E N E SCHAUSS: Semester Honor Roll ,... FHA Honor Chapter Officer .... Psychology.. Club .... Home- 'oom Representative ,... Monitor. PEARL SCHERER: NJHS .... Con- cert Mistress of Orchestra .... Concert Orchestra Letter and Chevrons .... FHA .... All-City Orchestra .... Home- room Representative ,... Library As- sistant. DARLENE SCHILLINGER: NJHS .... Concert Orchestra Letter and Chev- rons.,..Typing Awards .... FTA Pro- gram Chairman .... Upperclassman Popular Music Club Treasurer .... Circulo Espanol .,., Y-Teens .... Monitor ....Health Representative. BONNIE JEAN SCHLEGEL: Bowl- ing 500 Series Award, 4000, 5000, 6000 Pin Series Awards .... GAA .... FTA .... Bowling Club President and Secretary .,.. Health Representative .... Gym Assistant. CHARLES E. SCHMIDT: Ping Pong Club .... Projectionists Club .... Boys Glee Club Secretary. ROBERT A. SCHMITT: Football Club .... Basketball Club .... Psychology Club .... Tennis Team .... Concert Band. ALVIN LOUIS SCH NAUTZ. OLIVER SCHNEIDER: Handicraft Club .... Chess and Checker Club. BILL N. SCHOENBAUM: Typing Awards .... Ping Pong Club .... Chess and Checker Club .... Bowling Club. MARY L. SCHOONMAKER: NHS ....NJHS....Quill and ScroIl....Essay Contest Winner .... English Gold Medal .... Science Club Vice-President ....Psychology Club Vice-President.,.. Girls Cabinet .... Homeroom Repre- sentative .... Under and Upperclass- man Popular Music Club .... Red Cross Council .... Pep Section .... MIRROR Edi- torial Editor .... Pan America Day .... Senior Gift Committee Chairman. PAT SCHRIBER: NAHS .... Girls Ping Pong Club .... Handicraft Club ....Twirling Club. RAY SCHROEDER: Hi-Y. RONALD J. SCHUESSLER: Senior Play Committee .... Handicraft Club ..,.Boys Bowling Club....Ping Pong Club .... Science Club ..,. Upperclassman Popular Music Club .... Bible Club .,.. Chess and Checker Club .... Home- room Representative .... Teen Age Road-e-o. -- JOELLA SCOTT: Prom Committee ...Football Queen Attendant....NJHS ....Shorthand and Typing Awards.... Junior Picnic Committee .... FTA .... Y-Teens .... FBLA .... Charm Club .... Girls Cabinet .... Twirling Club .... Pep Club .... Monitor .... Torch Bearers .... PYC Committee. PATRICIA ANN SEIBERT: Typing Awards...,Red Cross Awards....MlR- ROR Staff .... Underclasman Popular Music Club .... FBLA .... Girls Ping Pong Club .... Charm Club .... Monitor. JERRY SEXTON: State Art Con- test Honorable Mention .... All City Baseball team .... Varsity Baseball, Captain .... Chairman Senior Day pro- gram .... Student Council .... Senior Class Art Committee Chairman .... Baseball club, President, Vice- President .... Basketball Club .... Na- tgional Art Honor Society .... MIRROR taff. BARBARA SIMPSON: Quill and Scroll .... Band Letter .... Honor Citation Typing Awards Maiorette Twirling Club .... Press Club .... MIR- ROR Circulation Manager .... Senior Edition Staff ,... Y-Teens .... Monitor .... Gym Assistant, DONALD H. SISCEL: Freshman and Varsity Football Letters..I.Track Letter .... All-City Football Team .... All-City Wrestling Team .... Freshman Basketball Letter .... Football Club .... Basketball Club .... Junior Class Treasurer. ROBERT SMITH: Honor Citation ....Football Club....Handicraft Club ...MIRROR Staff. ALBERT L. STEELE: Monitor .... Stage Crew .... Pan America Day .... Student Council .... FTA .... Bible Club ....Circulo EspanoI....Handicraft Club President. LAWRENCE STOFLETH: Football Club .... Football Team .... Track .... Monitor. DALE OBERBECKZ NJHS .... Student Council .... FFA Judging Team ..., Han- dicraft Club. DOYLE R. OBERBECK: Handicraft Club,...Ping Pong Club. NANCY OWEN: Shorthand and Typing Awards .... FHA .... Ping Pong Ellulij .... FBLA .... Monitor .... Typing u . JAMES E. PATTON: NCAA Award ....Basketball Club....Football Club.... Boys Bowling Club ..,. MIRROR Staff. .JAMES'C. PAUL: NHS .... Thes- pians .... Quill and Scroll .... Boy's State ....Student Council Convention....Re- serve Basketball and Baseball Let- ters .... Talent Show MC .... Thespian Play '54 ..,. Operetta '53 .... Basketball Club Baseball Club ,... Student Council President .... Concert Choir Treasurer .... Press Club Secretary .... MIRROR Managing Editor, Photo- grapher, News Editor, Rail Tales ....PYC Committee....Prom Commit- tee Chairman .... NHS Speaker. MARILYN PEASE: NJHS .... Con- cert Choir Letter and Chevrons ,... Pinlg -Pong Club Secretary,...FBLA yplng Club....Teen Age Book Club. ROSEMARY PEASE: Homeroom repreesntative .... GAA .... Girls Bowling Club .... Ping Pong Club Secretary .... Art Craft Club Treasurer .... Monitor. JERRY PECKENPAUGH: FFA Green Hand and Chapter Degree, Treasurer .... Chairman of Food Com- mittee, Parliamentary Procedure Team ,... Track .... Football and Basket- ball Letters. CHARLES PEERMAN: NHS .... NJHS .... Spanish Regional Contest Second .,.. FBLA Convention .... Student Council .... Sword and Masque .... FBLA Treasurer .... Homeroom Representa- tive .... Typing Practice Club .... Book Store Assistant. GARY C. PEERMAN: Band and Bowling Letters....Quill and Scroll. CHARLES E. PERRY: Speech Ci- tation .... Typing Club .... Handicraft Club. DORIS ANN PHELPS: NJHS .,.. Concert Choir Letter, Chevrons .... Shorthand Awards .... GAA Ping Pong Club .... Typing Club .... FBLA .... Main Office Assistant .... Health Rep- resentative .... Secretarial Play '54, JAMES R. PIRTLE: NHS .... NJHS Treasurer .... Football Letter .,.. Track Letter .... Wrestling .... Architectural Contest Third Place .... Tri-State Science Fair Honorable Mention '53 ....Football Club....Student Council.... Hi-Y Club .... RAA .... Pan America Day Committee '52 .... Freshman ln- duction Speaker .... Senior Class Presi- dent ..,. Junior Class President .... Sophomore Class Secretary. CAROL FOLK: FHA .... Sewing Club ....Monitor. WILLIAM D. PRYOR: Varsity Ten- nis Team .... Basketball Team Mana- ger .... Football Team Manager .... Freshman Track and Football Let- ters .... Basketball Club .... Football Club .... Ping Pong Club .... Handicraft Club .... RAA. BETTY L. RABE: State Scholas- tic Art Gold Key Award .... FHA Song Leader .... Attendance Office As- sistant .... Girl's Champ Basketball Team .... Homeroom Attendance Monitor. FRANCES M. RALEIGH: NHS .... NJHS .... NCAA Award .... Concert Choir Letter .... Foreign Correspon- derEcgTAClub .... Typing Practice Club EMILIE M. RALEY: Choir Chev- ron .... Honor Citation .... Charm Club AFBLA .... Librarian of Concert our. JAMES D. RAPP: Concert Band Letter .... Chess and Checker Club .... Boys Bowling Club .... Aviation Club. CAROLYN ANN REASOR: NJHS ....Guidance Office Assistant....Y- Teens .... Teen Age Book Club Treas- urer .... Handicraft Club, NORMAN REINICKE: NAHS Football Club .... Basketball Club .... Student Foreman's Club. JOHN C. REININGA: NHS .... Essay Contest Winner .... Golf Letter .... Handicraft Letter .,.. Golf Club .... Science Talent Club .... Homeroom Representative. CHARLES REXING: Handicraft Club .... Ping Pong Club .... Chess and Checkers Club Vice-President .... Monitor. DONALD F. RICHEY: Laboratory Assistant ..,. FFA,...Student Council.... Science Club President .... Science Fair .... Monitor .... Senior Class Treas- Ufef. JOAN RICKARD: NJHS .... Fresh- man Volley Ball Champ team .... GAA ...Handicraft Club....Teen Age Book Club .... Y-Teens .... FHA .... Ping Pong Club .... Main Office and Library Assistant. RICHARD RIDDLE: Concert Band Letter, First Division in State Con- test .... Safety Slogan First Place .... All-City Band and Orchestra .... Avia- tion Club .... Photography Club .... Handicraft Club. DALE RIGGS: FFA Green Hand, Chapter Farmer and Hoosier Farm- er Degrees, State Champion 4-H Demonstration '52, State Champion Guernsey 4-H Calf Club '53, Dairy Production Award, First Place with two-year-old cow at State Fair. MARGIE LITTLE ROBERTSON: Home Nursing Certificate .... Secre- tarial Training Club .... Typing Club ...Nursing Club. Page l3 Page i2 NORMA JEAN McCUTCHAN: FHA ....Teen Age Book Club. YVONNE McCUTCHAN: FHA ..., Y-Teens .... Teen Age Book Club .... Foreign Correspondence Club .... Monitor. H. NOEL McDONALD: NHS .... Quill and Scroll .... Choir Letter .... Wrestling Letter .... NJHS .... FBLA Chapter and State President .... Con- cert Choir .... MIRROR Photographer, Sports Editor and Editorial Board .... Boys Ensemble .... Mixed Ensemble. ANN McDOWELL: Quill and Scroll .... NHS .... Football Queen Atten- dant .... Miss Pan America Attendant ,...Student Assembly Club Girls Cabinet ..., MIRROR First Page Edi- tor, News Editor .... TV Play .... Chair- man of Commerce Day Committee ....Activity Ticket Representative... Pep Club .... Christmas Play .... GAA ..., Kiwanis Guide .... Go-to-College Guide ....Main Office Assistant....Atten- dance Office Assistant .... Counselor Office Assistant .... Dean of Girls Of- fice Monitor .... Y-Teens .... Circulo Espanol. BETTYE McLEMORE: FBLA .... Junior Red Cross .... Monitor .... Bible Club .,.. MIRROR Staff .... Foreign Cor- respondence Club .... Concert Choir. CHARLES J. McREYNOLDS: Honor Citation .... Stage Crew .... Proiectionist Club .... Chess and Checker Club. CHARLOTTE McROBERTS: NHS .... NJHS .... Quill and Scroll Secretary .... Concert Band Letter .... District and State Solo Contests .... GAA Pin.... Honor Citations .... Typing Awards... Circulo Espanol President ,... FTA ..., GAA .... Y-Teens .... Concert Band Sec- retary ..., All-City Band .... Girls Cabi- net Treasurer .... Bus Trip Manager .... Homeroom Representative .... Prom Committee .... Student Council Panels Main Office Assistant Pan American Day .... Chairman NHS So- cial Committee .... Ring Committee. BARBARA METCALF: Typing Club .... Charm Club. GLORIA DEAN METZ: FHA Squad Leader, Initiation and Ban- quet Committees .... Psychology Club ....Monitor....FHA Talent Programa... CHARLES MILLER: FFA Live- stock Judging, Trip to Purdue .... Monitor. DONNA MILLER: Honor Citations ....Sword and Masque....Charm Club ....FBLA Secretary....HeaIth Repre- sentative .... Monitor .... Dean of Girls Office Assistant. WAYNE E. MILLER: Handicraft Club. CONNIE MITCHELL: Choir Let- ter and Chevrons .... Charm Club .... DE Club Vice-President .... MIRROR Staff. LOREN E. MOORE: Tennis Let- ter .... Freshman, Reserve Football Letters .... Typing Awards .... Basketball Club .... Football Club .... Freshman RAA .... Latin Club .... Hi-Y Treasurer ....Handicraft Club..,.Monitor....Ping Pong Club. . I. -qw 35.5. ,iw . ... 2 f .... ....-.i 1 E :'i ,',. lyn Vzgvl , ,,... ...,.., ii' n . I i':2 .:r. .:1 5 . .,.... 1 '..'i WAYNE M. MOORE: Freshman, Reserve, Varsity Football Letters .... Football Club .... Freshman Hi-Y .... Freshman RAA. SHIRLEY L. MOORHEAD: Foreign Correspondence Club .... FBLA .... Moni- tor,.,.Assistant Monitor Captain. HAROLD MORGAN: Track Let- ters ,,., Thespians .... Football Club .... Basketball Club .... Astronomy Club ...Freshman RAA..,.Play...,Track. NANCY J. MORGAN: Choir Let- ter and Chevrons .... Press Club .... FHA .... Sword and Masque .... Nurse's Assistant .... MIRROR Ad Manager. BILL MOSBY: Reserve Football Letter ..., Monitor .... Student Council .... Football Club, JAMES E. NEAL: NHS .... Semester Honor Roll at MA .... Winning Shop Team at MA .... Second page Editor of the MA Craftsman, DELORES V. NELSON: Band chev- ron .... honor rolls .... semester honor roll.,.,UndercIassman Popular Music Club,...Charm Club .... Book Club.... Junior Red Cross .... Concert Choir .... Concert Band .... Pan America Day .... Library Assistant. DOROTHY NEUMANN: NAHS .... MIRROR Staff .... Main Office Assist- ant .... Y-Teens .... GAA .... FHA .... Strut and Fret .... Monitor, SHIRLEY NEWMAN: Freshman Championship Volley Ball Team .... MIRROR Staff .... Main Office Assist- ant...,Nurse's Office Assistant....Y- Teens .... Girls Ping Pong Club ..,. Teen Age Book Club .... GAA .... FHA. JACQUELINE NICHOLSON: NHS NJHS Quill and Scroll Vice- President .... Girls Cabinet ..,. Pan America Queen attendant,...FootbaIl Queen attendant .... Sword and Masque .... Y-Teens President ,... Senior Edition Editor-in-Chief .... MIRROR Assistant and Business Manager .... Press Club President .... Circulo Es- panol Secretary .... Teen Age Book Club .... Senior Finance Committee .... Main Office Assistant .... Monitor, JAMES R. NIEMEIER: Special Art- craft Award ..., Bowling Letter and Chevrons .... Casting Club .... Ping Pong Club ..., Handicraft Club .... Pep Club. BARBARA ANN NIETHAMMER: NHS .,.. NJHS .,.. Orchestra Chevron .... Math Contest Winner .... Teen Age Road-e-o top I5 .... Senior Play .... FHA .... Teen Age Book Club ..,. Math Recreation Club Vice-President .... Science Club .... Concert Orchestra. GAIL NORMAN: Handicraft Club. ALAN NUNN: Homeroom Repre- sentative .... Golf Club .... FFA. LOIS JANE KOEWLER: NHS ,... NJHS...,FBLA .... Teen Age Book Club ..,.Health Representative....MlRROR Staff .... Stage Crew. NORMAN H. KOHLER: NJHS. DONALD R. KOH LMEYER. CHARLES W. KOONCE: Rotary Award .... EHBA Award .... Bowling Let- ter .... Bowling Trophy .... Football Let- ter .... Boys Bowling Club President ,.,.Casting Club Secretary.,..Baseball Club.,.,Football Club. RONALD E. KORFF: Boys Bowling Club .... Monitor .... Craftsman Staff. VERNA MAE KORSMEIER: Typing Awards .... Typing Club. GEORGE KRIETEMEYER: NJHS .... NHS .... National Association of Cost Accountants Award ..., Mr, Executive ....Boys Bowling Club Treasurer.... FBLA Historian .... Student Council ..,. Monitor, IRIS JUNE KUESTER: NJHS .... Teen Age Book Club .... Handicraft Club .... Library Assistant .... Bookstore Assistant .... Monitor. JAMES R. LAMB: Quill and Scroll MIRROR Staff Reserve and Freshman Basketball Letters .... Moni- lor .... Freshman Baseball .... Baseball :lub .... Basketball Club .... FAA ..., Stage Club .... Health Representative. EDWARD B. LAND: Handicraft Club President. HARRY LAND: Football Letter .... Football Club .... Foreman's Club President. VIRGINIA LEE LANDY: Band Letter .... FHA .... Sword and Masque .... Bowling Club .... Ping Pong Club .... Monitor .... FBLA .... Pep Club. JACK LANT: Football Club .... Freshman-Sophomore Hi-Y. JOYCE LITTLEPAGE: FHA .... GAA. NORLENE LOGSDON: NJHS .... FBLA .... Underclassman Popular Music Club ..., Typing Club .... Monitor. LINDA LOVE: NHS .... NJHS .... Quill and Scroll .... MIRROR Editor- in-Chief, First Page Editor, and Editorial Board ,... Student Council .... Student Advisory Board .... Girls Cabinet .... Kiwanis Guide .... Health Representative .... FBLA .... GAA .... Press Club .... Pep Club .... Senior Edition Staff .... Monitor. DARRELL R. LOWRANCE: Band Letter .... Baseball Club .... Concert Band Vice-President, MARY LOU LUTTERMAN: GAA ....Monitor.,..Girls Ping Pong Club. RAYMOND MAINES: Basketball Club .... Ping Pong Club .... Chess and Checker Club .,., Teen Age Road-e-o. C S. JOSEPH MAND: Proiectionist lub. ANNE TAYLOR MANDEVILLE: Indiana Savings and Loan League Scholarship .... Evansville Manufactur- ers and Employers Association Scholarship .... National Freedoms Foundation Award ,... Speech Insti- tute Scholarship ,... AAUW Poetry Contest First Place ,... NHS .... NJHS .... Quill and Scroll .... Thespians Presi- dent .... Honor Thespian .... Band Letter .,.,Americari Legion Oratorical Con- test First Place in City and County, Second Place in District .... I Speak for Democracy contest .... District Twirling Contest .... Honor Citations ,,..Sword and Masque....Twirling Club ...,FTA .... Press Club .,.. Strut and Fret President .... Girls Cabinet .... Debate Team .... Two Fall Plays .,., Two Thes- pian Plays .... TV Play .... Student Council Open Forum and Panel .... Drum Major .... Freshman Assembly Speaker....MlRROR Editorial Editor, First Page Editor and Editorial Board ..,. Advisory Council .... Senior Edition Literary Editor .... Senior Play Committee .... Y-Teens .... Dean of Girls Office Monitor .... Attendance Office Assistant .... Make-Up Committee .... Shreds and Patches .... Senior Tal- ent Committee .... NHS Social Com- mittee. ROBERT L. MARTIN: NHS .... NJHS .... Varsity Basketball .... Varsity Football .... Football Club ,...Student Council. WILMA JOYCE MARTIN: FHA .... Monitor. NANCY E. MASON: Typing Cer- tificates .... Fl-IA .... Monitor. PHYLLIS JEAN MAYNARD: NJHS ...,NHS....Woman's Rotary Award.... Choir Letter ..., Shorthand and Typ- ing Awards .... Y-Teens .... GAA .... Typ- ing Club .... Main Office Assistant .... Chairman of PYC.,.,Health Repre- sentative .... Concert Choir .... Charm Club.,.,Prom Committee .... Operetta. SHIRLEY L. McCARTER: NHS .... NJHS .... NAHS .... Shorthand and Typ- ing Awards .... MIRROR Staff Artist ....GAA....Charm Club Vice-President ....Press Club....Y-Teens....Senior Gift Committee .... Sophomore Party Dec- oration Committee....Activity Ticket Representative .... Pan America Day Costume Committee,...Typing Club .,..Operetta Make-Up Committee.... Senior and Fall Plays. TERRY McCULLOUGH: MIRROR Staff .... Monitor .... Main Office As- sistant ..,. FHA .... Charm Club. IDA MARY McCUTCHAN: NHS ....NJHS....Quill and ScrolI....Quota Club Award ..,. DAR Award .... Mary Louise Mueller Social Studies Award ....Orchestra Letter....State Solo Con- test first division .... State Spanish Contest Silver Award .... TB News Story Award .... Employment of Handicapped Essay Contest, fourth in state .... Evansville Manufacturers and Employers Essay Contest, second place in school .... Student Council .... Girls Cabinet .... FTA Secretary-Treas- urer .... Press Club ..., Foreign Corre- spondence Club .... Senior Ring Com- mittee .... Senior Finance Committee ....Concert Orchestra Treasurer.... MIRROR Editor-in-Chief .... Health Representative. Page I I i Page I0 ALLAN OWEN HINDERLITER. CONSTANCE HITCH: Pan Ameri- day .... Monitor .... Semester Honor Roll ....Sword and Masque Secretary.... Student Assembly Club Secretary .... Student Council .,.. Girls Cabinet. ROZELLA HOLLINGSWORTH: FBLA .... Charm Club. ROBERT E. HOLLIS: Bowling Let- ter .... Science 'Fair Honorable Men- tion .... Semester Honor Roll .... NHS .... Senior Play....Astronomy Club Vice- President .... Circulo Espanol Vice- President .... Foreign Correspondence Club .... Science Talent Club....Concert Choir .... Boys Ensemble .... Mixed En- semble. JAMES R. HORR: Varsity, Reserve and Freshman Football Letters .... Wrestling Letter .,.. Freshman RAA .,.. Football Club .... Projectionist Club ..., Football Team .... Wreslting Team. JACHK E. HORSTKETTER: Fresh- man RAA .... Football Club .... Freshman and Reserve Football .... Freshman Baseball .... Health Representative. JOAN HOWE: AAUW Poetry Prize .... Senior Plays .... Strut and Fret ....Radio Announcers Club Treasurer ....Concert Choir....Y-Teens....French Club .... Glee Club .... FHA Song Lead- er .... Art Club. BILL JOE HUDSON: Freshman Football .... Monitor .... Football Club .... Hi-Y. JEROME RAYMOND HUFF: Cross Country . Letters .... Reserve Track Letters .... Freshman RAA .... Baseball Club .... Football Club .... Concert Band ...Homeroom Health Representative. JO ANN HUFF: Charm Club .... GAA .... Typing Club .... Ping Pong Club....Monitor. BILLY IGLEHEART: NJHS .... Var- sity Football Letter .... Varsity Tennis Letter .... Freshman Football Letter..., Freshman Track Letter .... Football Club .... Freshman RAA .... Student Council Treasurer .... Freshman Class President .... Sophomore Class Presi- dent. BARBARA LEE IMEL: Honor Cita- tion .... Shorthand Awards .... Typing Awards .... Y-Teens Social Committee ....FTA....Charm Club..., The Torch Bearers ..,. Handicraft Club Secretary ....Usher. 5- nmzs izoszm' INGRAM: FFA .... Projectionist. MARTHA ANN INGRFM: FHA .... Junior Red: Cross...IMonl 'ore SHARON JEAN JOHNS: NAHS .... Girls Cabinet .... Monitor .... Semester Honor Roll .... FHA ,... Senior Poster Committee .... Prom Committee .... Senior Picture Committee. LINDA JONES: Honor Citation ..., Nurse's Assistant .... Typing and Shorthand Awards .... Sweater Com- mittee .... Handicraft Club Secretary Foreign Correspondence Club.... The Torch Bearers .... Junior Red Cross Committee .... Ring Committee. WILLIAM JOSEPH KAPPERT. THEODORE L. KARGES: Reserve and Freshman Football Letters .... Football Club ..., Health Representa- tive. ROBERT KECK: Basketball Club .... FFA ..,. Monitor. CAROL YVONNE KEIL: Choir Letter and Chevrons ..,. Blue and Gray Ratings .... Typing Awards .... FTA .... Un- derclassman Popular Music Club .... Upperclassman Popular Music Club FBLA .... Monitor .... Concert Choir ...Counselor Office Assistant....Glee Club Secretary. DONALD E. KINDER: NHS .... NJHS ...Junior Red Cross .... Handicraft Club .... Football Club .... Student Fore- crHan's Club Secretary .... Ping Pong ub. CHARLOTTE A. KIRBY: Band and Orchestra Letters .... All City Band .... Home Nursing Certificate .... FHA .... Sewing Club ..., Girls Bowling Club. ROBERT JOE KIRBY: Sword and Masque ..., Homeroom Representative ...Boys Glee Club....Artcraft Club.... Ping Pong Club .... Student Council .... Monitor .... Red Cross Representative. PAUL KISSEL: NHS .... State Farm- er Degree....Monitor ..,. Judging Team Member .... FFA Vice-President. PHYLLIS ANN KLEINKNECHT: Typing Awards .,.. Twirling Club..., Press Club .... MIRROR Staff .... Moni- tE:or.5.Underclassman Popular Music LI . JO ANNE KLUEG: NAHS .... FHA Editor .... Honor Chapter Chairman .... Press Club ,... FHA Talent Night .... FHA State Meeting ..,. Squad Leader FHA .... MIRROR Staff. MARLENE KLUEG: Quill and Scroll .... Choir Letter and Chevrons Shorthand Certificates .... NJHS Honor Citations .... Press Club .... Con- cert Choir .... Shreds and Patches ....FHA Squad Leader....Junior Red Cross .... MIRROR Staff ..,. Senior Edi- tion Sports Editor. KENNETH KNIGHT: Kiwanis Bas- ketball Award ..., Varsity Basketball ....MlRROR Sports Editor....Kiwanis Vocational Guide .... Basketball Club Press Club Student Council Football Club .... Junior Class Secre- ary. JERRY GIBSON: Monitor .... Model Airplane Club. JAMES A. GIDCUMB: Model Air- plane Club Vice-President,...Handi- craft Club .... Junior Red Cross .,.. Stage Crew. SHARON GILL: FHA ..., Strut and Fret .... Monitor .... MIRROR Staff. RUSSEL A. GOEBEL: Ping Pong Club. FINUS E. GRAY: Projectionist Club .... Monitor. SHIRLEY ANN GRAYSON: FBLA ....Majorette....Twirling Club Art- Craft Club, LOUIS THOMAS GREENBERG: Ar- ion Award Winner ,... Reitz Boys' Tennis Championship Winner .... Dou- bles Tennis Tournament Winner ,... Safety Slogan Contest Third Place .... All-City Basketball Team .... NHS .... Varsity Basketball .,.. Basketball Club Secretary .... Varsity Tennis .... All-City Band and Orchestra .... Varsity Cross Country Team .,.. Concert Band Presi- dent .... Freshman Class Vice-Presi- dent .... Junior Class Vice-Presidents.. Senior Class Secretary. IRMA GRESSE: NHS .... Semester Honor Roll .... Mixed Ensemble ..., Up- perclassman Popular Music Club. JANICE GRESHAM: Student Coun- cil ..., Shorthand Awards .... Typing Awards .,.. FBLA .... Charm Club.,.,Teen Age Book Club .... Typing Club .... Monitor. v MARY ANN GRIGGS: Monitor Captain ,... Dean of Girls Office Mon- itor .... lnvltation Committee Chair- man .... Shorthand Certificate .... Honor Citations .... Blue and Gray Ratings .... Typing Certificate ..., FHA Historian Banquet Chairman .... Pep Club .... Monitor. CAROL JEAN GRIMM: Health Representative .... Dean of Girls Of- fice Monitor ..,. Blue and Gray Rat- ings .... Honor Citations .... Shorthand Certificates .... Junior Social Commit- tee .... Senior lnvitation Committee .... FBLA .... Strut and Fret .... Thespians... Teen Age Book Club .... Charm Club ,...Monitor....Pep Club..,.Typing Club ...Commerce Day Program Commit- tee .... Fall Play Committee .... Thes- pian Ticket Committee .... Y-Teens Sock Hop Entertainment. ROBERT EARL HAHN: Hoosier Farmer Degree .... FFA Reporter, Sec- retary .... Monitor. MARSHA GAYLE HALL: Blue and Gray Ratings .... DE Club .... Charm Club President .... Teen Age Book Club .... Monitor, NORBERT E. HANCOCK: NHS .... Varsity Football Letter .... Track Let- ter ..,. Tennis Letter .... Crowned Foot- ball Queen .... Football Club .... FAA .... Reserve and Varsity Basketball. DIANE HAPE: FHA ..., Activity Ticket Representative. ROBERT HAPE: Reserve Football Letter .... Freshman Basketball Letter Monitor....FFA Sentinel.,..Chapter Meeting Contest Member. GARY ALLAN HARMON: Thes- pians .... Monitor .... Senior Play .... Thes- pian Play .... FFA Song Leader .... Pro- jectionist. JAMES M. HARRIS: NHS .... Quill and Scroll .... Choir Letter and Chev- rons .... Model Airplane Club .... Chess and Checker Club .... Student Coun- cil .... Homeroom Representative .... Ping Pong Club .... Freshman Base- ball .... Boys Glee Club Treasurer. DONALD H A R T IG: Handicraft Club. SUE HASTINGS: NHS .... NJHS .... Quill and Scroll President ,.., MIRROR Page Editor. MARY LOUISE HEAD: FBLA .... Teen Age Book Club .... Charm Club ....Monitor..,.Pep Club....Prom Com- mittee. WALTER HEILMAN: Model Air- plane Club .... Handicraft Club. JOYCE M. HENKE: Dean of Girls Office Monitor .... Pan America Day Blue and Gray Ratings....Girls Cabinet .... Underclassman Popular Music Club .... Teen Age Book Club President .... Foreign Correspondence Club .,.. Junior Red Cross. JOE HERRON: Varsity Football Letters ..,. Projectionist Club ..,. Foot- ball Club. RICHARD HETTENBACH: Bowl- ing Letter .... Boys Bowling Club Sec- retary. WILLIAM J. HEUGLE: Football Club .... Proiectionist Club .... Shop Basketball at Mechanic Arts. LARRY HIGGINS: Varsity Basket- ball .... Varsity Track .... Cross Country ...Freshman Football .... Student Coun- cil .... Health Representative .... Basket- ball Club President ..,. FAA ..., Monitor Prom Committee Senior Class Vice-President. CLYDE H. HIGGS: Popular Music Club .... Handicraft Club ..,. Model Air- plane Club .... Casting Club .... Basket- ball Club .... Bowling Club .... Baseball Club .... Football Club .... Freshman Football .... Freshman Track .... Prom Committee. Page 9 Page 8 DORIS KECK DAY: Cheerleader ....Football Queen....FootbaIl Queen Attendant .... GAA .... Student Council Executive Council, Secretary and Vice-President .... Girls Cabinet Presi- dent ..,. Homeroom Representative .... Sword and Masque .... MIRROR Staff Pep Club Prom Committee DAVID DEEG: NHS ..,. Vocal Solo- ist with Musical Extravaganza, All- City Band and Orchestra, and Massed Choir at IU .,.. All-State Choir .... First Division Winner Four Years in Dis- trict and State Solo and Ensemble Contest .... Senior Play .... Operettas: Shreds and Patches and Trial by Jury .... Kiwanis Vocational Guide ....Sword and Masque....Underclass- man Popular Music Club President ....Concert Band and Orchestra Concert Choir .... Ping Pong Club. ROBERT DEEG: Blue and Gray Ratings ..., Monitor .... Baseball Club .... Ping Pong Club .... Activity Ticket Representative. MARGIE DEER: GAA .... Underclass- man Popular Music Club .... Foreign Correspondence Club. WILLIAM EUGENE DELLER. ROBERT DEVILLEZ: Honor Cita- tion ..., Casting Club .... Baseball Club .,..Projectionist. MARGARET CLARK DEWEESE: Student Assembly Club Secretary ..,. Monitor. D O N A L D DOCKERY: Football Club .... Bowling Club ..,. Reserve Foot- ball. ....EMMA JEAN DOENCH: Honor Citation .... FHA .... Sewing Club .... Mon- itor .,.. Main Office Assistant. LOIS MAY DONHAM: NHS .,.. NJHS .... AAUW Poetry Prize....Eng- lish Bronze Medal....Choir Letter and Chevrons ..,. State Latin Contest Second Place .... Student Council .... Girls Cabinet ..., Concert Choir .... Psy- chology Club .... Y-Teens FTA Science Club Secretary-Treasurer .,.. Charm Club. HELEN CURRY DUNCAN: NJHS ..,,Girls Cabinet Kiwanis Guide.... Typing Awards .... GAA. SHARON JAYNE DUNHAM: Ar- ion Award .... NHS President .... NJHS Philharmonic Orchestra....AlI-City Orchestra Secretary .... All-City Band ..,.Concert Orchestra President.... Concert Band .,., State Solo Contest First Division .... Football Queen At- tendant .... Class Ring Committee... P r o m Entertainment Committee Chairman....Student Council Panels ...Junior Red Cross ..., Student Coun- cil .... Girls Cabinet .... Teen Age Book Club Secretary .... Student Assembly Club ,... Y-Teens. DALE DUTTON: Bowling Lettcr ..., Handicraft Club .... Bowling Club ,... Hi-Y .,.. Monitor. LARRY EDMONSON. FERD ALLAN ELFREICH: Short- hand Certificate .... Health Represent- ative .... Main Office Assistant .... Ring Committee .... GAA ..., Ping Pong Club. SHIRLEY ANN ELFREICH: Short- hand Certificate ..., Health Repre- sentative .... Main Office Assistant ..,. Ring Committee .... GAA....Ping Pong Cub. ROBERT LEWIS ELIKOFER: Blue and Gray Ratings .... Black and Gray, Mechanic Arts .,.. Ping Pong Club .... Artcraft Club .... Monitor. PAT EMBRY: Honor Citation .... Senior Play ..., Underclassman Popu- lar Music Club .... Upperclassman Popular Music Club .... Girls Ping Pong Club .... Concert Orchestra .... Homeroom Attendance Monitor. CARLENE FULTON ENGLEBRIGHT: FHA .... Typing Practice Club ..,. Charm Club .... FBLA .... Pep Club. CHARLES Q. ENGLISH: NHS .... Proiectionist Letter ..., Casting Club Projectionist Club .... Chess and Checker Club. ROBERT C. FAWCETT: NHS Treas- urer .... NJHS .... Freshman, Reserve and Varsity Track Letters .... Cross Country Letter .... Wrestling .... Time Iurrent Events Award .... Casting Club ...Football Club....Pan America Day. BARBARA FISCHER: NHS .... NJHS Bowling Monogram Shorthand Certificates .... Typing Awards .... Un- derclassman Popular Music .... Girls Bowling Club .... Typing Practice Club ....FTA....FBLA....Monitor. BOB FISHER: Varsity Baseball .... Varsity Football .... Varsity Basketball ...Football Club Baseball Club Basketball Club .... Monitor. SHEILA YAVONNE FRAKES: Safe- ty Slogan Contest Fourth Place .... Shorthand Certificates and Pins .... Typing Awards .... Choir Letter and Chevrons .... Member of Champion Basketball Team .... Underclassman Popular Music Club .... Upoerclass- man Popular Music Club .... FBLA. MARY ANN FRASER: Under- classman Popular Music Club .... Up- perclassman Popular Music Club .... FBLA. JAMES E. GATEWOOD: Football Club .... Handicraft Club, ROBERT W. GEIER: BAA .... Foot- ball Club. EMIL GERLING: Model Airplane Club .... Monitor. ALVADA BURGDORF: Monitor .... Health Representative .... FHA .... Strut and Fret Secretary .... Make-Up Com- mittee .... Plays: 'Home Sweet Homi- cide, Running Wild, and Ad- mirable Crichton. GERALD K. BURGDORF: Bowling Letter .,.. Bowling Club .... Student Council. G L O R I A BURGDORF: Typing Awards...,FBLA .... F H A ,... Prom Com- mittee .... Fall Play .... Monitor. RONALD G. BURGDORF: NHS .... District I0 FFA Essay Contest, Third Place .,.. State FFA Farm Mechanics Contest ..,. FFA President and Vice- President ,... Reserve Baseball Team .,..Livestock and Grain Judging Teams .,.. FFA Chapter Meeting Con- test, JAMES BYERS: Kiwanis Football Award ,... Varsity Football Captain .... Varsity Basketball Captain ,... Tennis ...,Track..,.NHS Vice-President....All- City, All-Conference, All-State and All-American Football Teams ..,. Foot- ball Club .... Basketball Club .... Fresh- man Boys Glee Club President. HARRY R. CAMPBELL: NHS .,.. Junior American Red Cross Repre- sentative .... Press Club .... Teen Age Book Club .,.. Chess and Checker Club .... Pan American Day....MlRROR Sports Editor. DOROTHY LOUISE CARY: Typing and Shorthand Awards .... Monitor .... Charm Club Secretary ..., GAA .,.. Typ- ing Club .... Library Assistant .... Jun- ior Band .... Dean of Girls Office As- sistant. BEVERLY C A V IS: Shorthand A w a r d .... Foreign Correspondence Club ..,. Charm Club ..,. Girls Ping Pong Club .... Typing Club .... Library Assistant. JACQUELINE CHAMBERLAIN: GAA ...Bowling Club....Y-Teens....Twirling Club .... Press Club .... MIRROR Ad Manager ..., Bookstore Assistant. LEWIS CLARK: Baseball Letter ,... Artcraft Club .,.. Baseball Club .... Stu- :lent Council, Mechanic Arts .... Treas- urer of Mechanic Arts Junior Class. NORMA JEAN CLARK: Safety Slogan Contest Second Place Win- ner .... Handicraft Club Vice-President .,..GAA .... Typing Club .... FBLA...,Mon- itor .,.. 'Take a Letter cast. JAMES CLAYMAN: Baseball Club ...,Model Airplane Club. DONALD CLEMENTS: Blue and Gray Ratings .... Artcraft Club .... Un- derclassman Popular Music Club .... Junior Band .,.. Boys Glee Club .... Champion Shop Basketball Team, Mechanic Arts .... Student Council, CAROL COMBS: Cheerleader .... NHS,..,Honor Roll .... Football Queen Attendant .... Pan America Attendant ....Senior PIay....Charm Club Presi- dent .... Student Assembly Club .... Stu- dent Council .... Girls Cabinet ..,. Y- Teens .... Community Center Advisory Board .... The Torch Bearers cast ...Dean of Girls Office Monitors.. Main Office Assistant .... Kiwanis Guide .... Sophomore Class Vice--Presi- dent. PEGGY ANN CONWAY: NHS .... NJHS .... NOMA Award .... Bowling Em- blem .... FBLA .... Foreigni Correspond- ence Club .... Girls Bowling Club .... Homeroom Representative .... Main Office Assistant .... Y-Teens .... GAA .... Monitor .... Social Committee. JOAN CORNS: Football Queen Attendant .... Attendant to Miss Pan America .... Student Assembly Club .... Circulo Espanol ..., ECC Youth Advis- ory Council .... Chairman Senior Class Social Committee .... Y-Tleens .... Home- room Representative .... MIRROR Staff ....Monitor. THOMAS COTTON: Teen-Age Driving Road-e-o .... Model Airplane Club .... Baseball Club .... Health Rep- resentative .... Psychology Club .... Sen- Epr Play .... Wrestling Team .... Stage rew. MARY JOYCE COULTAS: Under- classman Popular Music Club .... Jun- ior Red Cross .... Foreign Correspond- ence Club .... Monitor. R. DAVID COX: Varsity Football Varsity Track Varsity Golf Thespians .... Football Club .... Casting Club President .... Ping Pong Club .... Model Airplane Club .... Pan America Day .,.. Christmas Play .... Radio Pro- grams .... Television Play .... Prom Com- mittee, YVONNE CRABTREE: Shorthand Awards .... GAA .... FBLA .... Main Office Assistant .... Senior Play Committee .... Pan America Day .... Foreign Corres- pondence Club .... Freshman Talent Program. MYRNA CULLEY: Girls State Rep- resentative .... NJHS President and Vice - President .... NHS .... State Achievement Latin Contest .... Safety Slogan Contest First Place .... Student Council .... Girls Cabinet .... FTA Presi- dent and Vice-President .,.. Student Council Panels .... Senior Class Social Committee .... The Lincoln Heart cast .... Latin Play .... Homeroom Repre- sentative .... Monitor .... Main Office Assistant .... Attendance Office Assis- tant. JO ANN CUMMINGS: NHS .... NJHS .... Shorthand and Typing Awards .... Activity Ticket Represent- ative .... FHA Historian .... FBLA, Chair- man Commerce Day .... Monitor .... Freshman Girls Choir .... MIRROR sta . MARY ROSALINE CURRY BARBARA JO DAILEY: Attendant to Miss Pan America .... Monitor .... Senior Distinction Committee .... Charm Club .... Circulo Espanol .... Psy- chyology Club President .... Concert Orchestra. SHIRLEY DAUBLE: Arion Award ....NHS Secretary....Miss Pan Ameri- ca .... Choir Letter .... Senior Play .... Student Council .... Girls Cabinet .... FHA Local and District Song Lead- er, National Delegate .... Shreds and Patches cast .... Senior Distinction Day Committee Chairman .... Inter- mediate Choir Vice- President .... Con- cert Choir President. HAROLD L. DAVID: Football Club ....Math Recreation Club President ....Science Talent Club....Projection- ist Club. SUSAN DAVIS: NJHS .... Thrift Es- say Contest, Second Place .... Short- hand and Typing Awards ,... Blue and Gray Ratings .... Monitor .... Ping Pong Club President ....Y-Teens .... Charm Club .... Guidance Office Assistant .... MIRROR Staff .... Press Club .... Teen Age Book Club .... Handicraft -Club .... Prom Committee .... Pan America Day Health Representative Under- classman Popular Music Club. WANDA MAE DAVIS: Foreign Correspondence Club .... Bowling Club ....DE Club Secretary and Treasurer. Page 7 Q I Page 6 JUDY ANDERSON: GAA .... Bowling Club. NANCY CAROLYN ALSING: FTA Social Chairman .... Spanish Club .... Foreign Correspondence Club .... Pan American Day .... Dean. of Girls As- sistant .... Y-Teens .... Girls Cabinet .... Monitor. NANCY ALTHEIDE: NHS .... NJHS ....Quill and Scroll....NOMA Award.... Commencement Committee .... MIR- ROR Business Manager .... Shorthand and Typing Awards....Press Club.... Junior Red Cross .,.. Pan American Day and Costume Committee .... Health Representative .... Attendance Monitor .... Y-Teens .... Sophomore Par- ty Decoration Committee .... Gym As- sistant. PHIL ARAMOWICZ: Football and Wrestling Letters .... All-City and All Conference SIAC Football Team..... Football Club .... Freshman Athletic Association. ALBERT C. ARENDT: Casting Club. EDWARD ASHBY: Junior and Sen- ior Hi-Y .... Freshman and Sophomore Hi-Y .... Monitor .... Hi-Y President. SHIRLEY ASHBY: Monitor .... Ac- tivity T i c k e t Representative ,... Nurse's Assistant Press Club Spanish Club .... Charm Club. SHARON LOU ASHWORTH: NAHS ....NHS....GAA....Student Pep Assem- bly Club .... Girls Bowling Club .,.. Y- Teens .... Student Council .... Girls- Cab- inet .... Homeroom Representative .... Speech Class President. CHARLOTTE ANN AURS: NJHS ....FBLA....FHA. DAVID AUSTILL: Freshman, Re- serve and Varsity Football Letters ....Football Club. RICHARD WAYNE BARFIELD: Baseball Club. JUANITA BARTEK: Twirling Club ....FHA....Monitor. RALPH BATTEIGER: Blue and Gray Ratings....Casting Club .... Model Airplane Club .... Baseball Manager. SHARON ANN BEBOUT: NJHS..,. NHS .... Honor Citations .... Shorthand and Typing Awards .... FTA .... Y-Teens ....Pan American Attendant....Activ- ity Ticket Representative .... Home- room Representative .... Junior Social Committee .... Sophomore Party Com- mittee .... Circulo Espanol Secretary. SHARON BECKER: Underclassman Popular Music .... Sewing Club. MARJORIE ELMONIA BELL: NJHS ....lOO Word Shorthand Test....Choir Letter and Chevrons .... Homeroom and Activitzy Ticket Representative Typing lub Concert Choir Underclassman Popular Music Club ....FBLA....Blue and Gray Ratings.... Y-Teens .... Honor Citations .... Fresh- man Girls Chorus .... Semester Honor Roll 3 years .... Girls Glee Club .... Sen- ior Ring Committee. DAVID LAMAR BEMILLER: NHS ....NJHS...,Thespians. Plays: Cheap- er by the Dozen, Home Sweet Homicide, 'Running Wild .... Stu- udent Council .... Radio Announcers Club .... All-City Band .... Reitz Band and Orchestra Letters .... Astronomy Club President .... Math Club Secre- tary-Treasurer. JOYCE BENTHALL: Safety Slogan Contest Winner .... GAA....FHA. ' SHIRLEY ANN BISHOP: Choir Letter .... Shorthand Certificates .... Dean of Girls Office Monitor .... Un- derclassman Popular Music Club ,... FHA .... Ping Pong Club .... Teen Age Book Club .... Pep Club. JANICE BITTS: Concert Orchestra ....Monitor....Underclassman Popular Music Club .... FHA. .IO NELL BLAINE: Monitor,...Fl-IA ...,GAA .... Twirling Club. CHARLES AUGUST BLAKE: Con- cert Band Letter .... Artcraft Club .... Boys Pin 'Pong Club...LChess and Checker Club President. MILDRED BOCKELMAN: NHS .... NJHS .... Band Letter .... Monitor .... FHA President and Honor Chapter Chairman .... Y-Teens .... Pep Club. G E R A L D BRANHAM: Football Club .... Track Team .... Freshman Foot- ball and Basketball Teams .... Reserve Football Team. JAMES A. BROMM: Varsity Foot- ball Letter .... Varsity Wrestling Let- ter .... Second Honor Rating in Sci- ence Fair .... First Place in City Wrestling Meet .... Second Place in Sectional Wrestling Meet .... Health Representative .... Football Club .... Thespians. HARRY BROWN: FFA .... Song Leader. DAWN BULKLEY: NHS .... NJHS... Band Chevron ..... Dean of Girls Office Monitor .... Semester Honor Rolls .... Blue and Gray Ratings .... Senior Play ....Bible Club President....Handicraft Club .... FBLA Song Leader and Pro- gram Chairman .... Sunshine Club Pi- anist .... Commencement Committee .... Concert Choir .... Mixed Ensemble .... Concert Band. RUBY ELIZABETH BUNCH: FHA ....Charm CIub....FBLA....Pep CIub.... Homeroom Representative .... Monitor. idfcvuf The worm has turned! At least that's the way we felt when we returned to Reitz as seniors. Al- most from the moment it began, our senior year has been an eventful one. To herald a successful close to our high school career, the football team this year won the City, the SIAC, and the mythical State championship. The ordinary projects of school kept us busy through late Fall, but after the Christmas holidays we began to realize that time was growing short. Each succeeding week brought some new senior activity. The Senior Play was given April 29 and 30 and, almost before we thought it possible, the time had come for our last Prom. After that, in whirlwind fashion, came the Faculty-Senior Party, the Alumni Banquet, Senior Talent Day, and final- ly, Senior Week! As we reminisce about the past four years, we remember not only what happened to our class and to Reitz High School, but to the entire nation as well, ln the short span of our high school career the population of the United States has reached l63,000,000. Three diminsion movies have become commonplace, and televiewing has become the na- tional hobby. Now, all research indicates that black and white television will be obsolete withTn a few years. Politically speaking, the Republican party, after twenty years in involuntary retirement, has again come into power, and Great Britain again has a woman as its sovereign. During our brief stay here, the United States has been engaged in great war, and the advent of the hydrogen bomb has made the complete annihilation of mankind possible. In the silence of a sunset Commencement, these are the things we remember as we sing: Hail to the our Alma Mater . . . is ga E gm Officers for the class of '54 during the Senior year have been Jim Pirtle, president, Larry Higgins, vice-president, Tom Greenberg, secretary, and Don- ald Richey, treasurer. Page 5 Page 4 Glau Sfmwxau MISS JEAN MARSHALL MR. ALLAN HORN Glwu Dancing rays of early morning sun shone bright- ly that Fall day in 1950 when the Class of '54 first climbed the long hill to enter Reitz High School. During our freshman year we were primarily con- cerned with orienting ourselves and finding our own particular place in the cycle of a new school life. As class officers that first year we chose Bill lgleheart, Tom Greenberg, Jack Fisher, and Don Williams to serve as president, vice-president, sec- retary, and treasurer, Our freshman basketball team that year won the SIAC title, and the highlight of the entire year, as far as we were concerned, occur- red when the varsity basketball team won the sec- tional, regional, and semi-final titles, losing by only two points in the game for the state championship. As sophomores, we began to extend ourselves and to become more active in extra-curricular activ- ities. Our class track team was victorious in the lntra-class meet, and our big social event was a party in the school cafeteria. That year our officers were Bill lgleheart, president, Carol Combs, vice president, Jim Pirtle, secretary, and Janice Taylor, treasurer. When we became juniors we joined the sophisti- cated ranks of the upperclassmen. To guide us in the first year of our newly acquired dignity, we elected Jim Pirtle as our president. Tom Greenberg served as vice-president, with Skip Knight and Don Siscel acting as secretary and treasurer respective- ly. The football team, including some Juniors, won che City and SIAC titles, and some our musically inclined members helped the band win first place in the Fall Festival contest. Attending the Prom that year, as well as ordering senior class rings and sweaters, reminded us that our own senior year was not far away. -1 Senialul We are dedicating this year's Senior Edition to Jack Steele, one of our classmates who was killed last summer. Jack was a valuable member of our class, and each of us have missed him. genial: Zcfzlfian Slaff EDITOR-IN-CHIEF .......................................... Jackie Nicholson BUSINESS MANAGER ........ ........ N ancy Altheide LITERARY EDITOR ............ ...... A nne Mandeville MANAGING EDITOR .............................................. James Paul SENIOR PICTURE EDITOR .................................... Eleanor Tyler SENIOR COPY EDITORS ........ Jim Townsend and Ann McDowell SPORTS EDITOR ................................................ Marlene Klueg PHOTOGRAPHERS ....................... 1 ..... Jim Paul, Noel McDonald, Mary Schoonmaker and Nanna Hart ARTIST ................................................................ Sarah Warren CIRCULATION MANAGER .............................. Barbara Simpson RE-PORTERS ................ Sharon Gill, Harry Campbell, Jim Lamb, Linda Love, Mary Schoonmeker and JoAnn Klueg Senior pictures were made by Koch Studio. Among these familiar scenes we have built many dreams and memories. Wherever each of us wanders, through these cherished memories, we shall return many times. The school, the campus, and the friendships here will always have a special place in our hearts. J